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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 10 km S of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia


Earthquake location 52.9665S, 158.6027WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Friday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:04:06 / 12:04 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rkk7. Unique identifier: us6000rkk7. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/10/25 / 2025-10-31 12:04:06 / October 31, 2025 @ 12:04 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 99.373 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 158.6027° East, 52.9665° North, depth 99.373 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 9 km (6 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 10 km S of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.6027° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.9665° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.373 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km S 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 2025-10-31 12:04:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-31 12:26:03 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 298 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us6000rkk7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rkk7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rkk7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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