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


Earthquake location 53.5794S, 160.3435WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 127 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (79 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/09/25 / 2025-09-27 10:25:14 / September 27, 2025 @ 10:25 am UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:25:14 / 10:25 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 42.517 km (26 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 160.3435 East, latitude 53.5794 North, depth = 42.517 km. Id of earthquake: us6000rdb5. Event ids that are associated: us6000rdb5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 127 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.3435° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.5794° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.517 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 127 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 2025-09-27 10:25:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-27 10:44:35 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.159 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us6000rdb5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rdb5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rdb5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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