Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Monday. Global time and date of event 01/09/25 / 2025-09-01 06:07:17 / September 1, 2025 @ 6:07 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000rcu5. Event ids that are associated: us6000rcu5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 159.4911° East, latitude 52.8726° North, depth = 65.869 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:07:17 / 6:07 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 65.869 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixty-two, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-four, in the past 30 days three hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 61 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	159.4911° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.8726° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65.869 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	61 km ESE 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	2025-09-01 06:07:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-30 15:10:25	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	284	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.531	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	116	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	us6000rcu5	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rcu5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rcu5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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