A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 73.63 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 159.8974 East, latitude 53.2957 North, depth = 73.63 km. The temblor was detected at 15:43:59 / 3:43 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/10/25 / 2025-10-29 15:43:59 / October 29, 2025 @ 3:43 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rp61. Unique identifier: us6000rp61.
Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-three, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days ninety-two and in the last 365 days nine hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 88 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.
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