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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 83 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia


Earthquake location 53.181S, 159.8579WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/10/25 / 2025-10-17 01:25:57 / October 17, 2025 @ 1:25 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 159.8579 East, latitude 53.181 North, depth = 63.703 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rhpx. Id of event: us6000rhpx. The temblor was picked up at 01:25:57 / 1:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 63.703 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days two hundred and six and in the last 365 days nine hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 83 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.8579° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.181° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.703 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83 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 2025-10-17 01:25:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-17 01:45:17 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 449 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 82 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us6000rhpx Id of event.
Event Code 6000rhpx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rhpx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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