A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 20:30:08 / 8:30 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000rlrh. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rlrh. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 92.839 km (58 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/11/25 / 2025-11-05 20:30:08 / November 5, 2025 @ 8:30 pm. Exact location, longitude 159.1714° East, latitude 52.7633° North, depth = 92.839 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days sixty-two and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 49 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.
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