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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on September 26, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 53.0869S, 159.958WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Friday. Exact location, longitude 159.958° East, latitude 53.0869° North, depth = 68.183 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/09/25 / 2025-09-26 07:49:07 / September 26, 2025 @ 7:49 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 07:49:07 / 7:49 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 68.183 km (42 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rd28. Id of event: us6000rd28. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days one hundred and nineteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days nine hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 89 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.958° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.0869° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.183 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-26 07:49:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-26 08:09:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 326 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.792 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rd28 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rd28 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rd28, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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