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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on October 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 53.1242S, 159.8913WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. The temblor was detected at 11:36:32 / 11:36 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 59.651 km (37 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000rgbk. Event ids that are associated: us6000rgbk. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/09/25 / 2025-09-19 11:36:32 / September 19, 2025 @ 11:36 am. Exact location, longitude 159.8913° East, latitude 53.1242° North, depth = 59.651 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and nineteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and fifty-eight, in the past 30 days three hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days one thousand and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.8913° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.1242° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.651 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84 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 11:36:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-17 08:39:08 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 326 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 76 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 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us6000rgbk Id of event.
Event Code 6000rgbk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rgbk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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