A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia on Sunday. Unique identifier: us6000rew1. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rew1. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/10/25 / 2025-10-05 04:01:00 / October 5, 2025 @ 4:01 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 78.224 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 158.7988° East, 52.2514° North, depth 78.224 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:01:00 / 4:01 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk. Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-two and in the last 365 days eight hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 80 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.
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