Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. Event id: us6000rd8l. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rd8l. Global time and date of event 26/09/25 / 2025-09-26 19:29:18 / September 26, 2025 @ 7:29 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 159.9147 East, latitude 53.2698 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:29:18 / 7:29 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days one hundred and ten, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days eight hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 89 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	159.9147° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.2698° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	89 km ENE 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 19:29:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-26 19:54:59	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	400	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.801	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us6000rd8l	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rd8l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rd8l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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