Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.167 km (27 miles). Global time and date of event 21/09/25 / 2025-09-21 05:17:17 / September 21, 2025 @ 5:17 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:17:17 / 5:17 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000rh39. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rh39. Exact location, longitude 159.8745° East, latitude 52.8725° North, depth = 44.167 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-four, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourty-three, in the past 30 days three hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 86 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	159.8745° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.8725° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44.167 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	86 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	2025-09-21 05:17:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-16 13:15:36	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	259	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.756	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us6000rh39	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rh39	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rh39,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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