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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 52.9139S, 159.0329WA 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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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.0329° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.9139° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83.763 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31 km ESE 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 2025-10-28 18:49:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-18 22:44:21 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 259 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.829 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us6000rnyw Id of event.
Event Code 6000rnyw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rnyw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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