A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rgrl. Unique identifier: us6000rgrl. The temblor was picked up at 18:11:04 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/10/25 / 2025-10-12 18:11:04 / October 12, 2025 @ 6:11 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 86.079 km (53 miles). Exact location, longitude 159.0215° East, latitude 52.5385° North, depth = 86.079 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and nineteen and in the last 365 days eight hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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