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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

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Earthquake location 53.0668S, 161.2952WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 178 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (111 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 161.2952 East, latitude 53.0668 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/09/25 / 2025-09-26 16:36:32 / September 26, 2025 @ 4:36 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:36:32 / 4:36 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rhvr. Unique identifier: us6000rhvr.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-seven, in the last 10 days two hundred and sixty-four, in the past 30 days three hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days one thousand and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light 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. 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: 178 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.2952° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.0668° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 178 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 2025-09-26 16:36:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-24 18:43:11 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 271 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.598 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us6000rhvr Id of event.
Event Code 6000rhvr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rhvr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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