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

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 64.147 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rm40. Unique identifier: us6000rm40. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/10/25 / 2025-10-18 06:13:41 / October 18, 2025 @ 6:13 am. Exact location of event, longitude 159.6289 East, latitude 53.1223 North, depth = 64.147 km. The temblor was reported at 06:13:41 / 6:13 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).

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 fifty-eight, in the past 30 days three hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days one thousand and seventy-two 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. 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: 67 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	159.6289° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.1223° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	64.147 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67 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	2025-10-18 06:13:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-09 07:23:25	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.599	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	137	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	us6000rm40	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rm40	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rm40,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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