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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on October 10, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 53.0947S, 160.9131WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 153 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (95 miles) on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us6000rg80. Event ids that are associated: us6000rg80. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:11:01 / 8:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 160.9131 East, latitude 53.0947 North, depth = 28.999 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/09/25 / 2025-09-18 20:11:01 / September 18, 2025 @ 8:11 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.999 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fourty, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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.

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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. 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: 153 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.9131° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.0947° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.999 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 153 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 2025-09-18 20:11:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-10 18:22:18 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 271 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.368 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us6000rg80 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rg80 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rg80, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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