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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on October 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.5188S, 160.9003WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 164 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (102 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000rgw2. Event ids that are associated: us6000rgw2. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:29:52 / 1:29 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/09/25 / 2025-09-20 01:29:52 / September 20, 2025 @ 1:29 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.9003 East, latitude 52.5188 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirty-nine, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourty-four, in the past 30 days three hundred and twenty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 164 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.9003° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.5188° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 164 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 2025-09-20 01:29:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-17 02:55:36 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 385 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.458 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us6000rgw2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rgw2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rgw2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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