Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. Event id: us6000rgal. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rgal. The temblor was detected at 03:49:05 / 3:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/09/25 / 2025-09-19 03:49:05 / September 19, 2025 @ 3:49 am. Exact location of event, longitude 159.683 East, latitude 53.1318 North, depth = 51.463 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.463 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 71 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	159.683° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.1318° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51.463 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	71 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	2025-09-19 03:49:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-17 00:02:57	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	298	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.633	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	124	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	us6000rgal	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rgal	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rgal,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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