A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Tuesday. Event id: us6000rnyw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rnyw. The temblor was detected at 18:49:14 / 6:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 159.0329 East, latitude 52.9139 North, depth = 83.763 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 83.763 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 28/10/25 / 2025-10-28 18:49:14 / October 28, 2025 @ 6:49 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days ninety-three and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 31 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.
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