Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on October 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.4915S, 160.9813WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 171 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (106 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:40:20 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 160.9813 East, latitude 52.4915 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000rhvx. Event ids that are associated: us6000rhvx. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/09/25 / 2025-09-26 20:40:20 / September 26, 2025 @ 8:40 pm.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-four, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-one, in the past 30 days three hundred and fourty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

Questions or comments?

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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 171 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

Copyright © 2025 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.9813° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.4915° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 171 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 2025-09-26 20:40:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-23 16:42:09 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 284 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.514 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 us6000rhvx Id of event.
Event Code 6000rhvx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rhvx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2025 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today