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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 52.9856S, 159.6626WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.551 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 159.6626° East, 52.9856° North, depth 60.551 km. Event id: us6000rdnq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rdnq. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/09/25 / 2025-09-29 22:07:26 / September 29, 2025 @ 10:07 pm. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:07:26 / 10:07 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 69 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.6626° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.9856° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.551 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 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 2025-09-29 22:07:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-29 22:25:37 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 465 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 88 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rdnq Id of event.
Event Code 6000rdnq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rdnq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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