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


Earthquake location 52.9588S, 160.564WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 130 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (81 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/11/25 / 2025-11-06 21:22:38 / November 6, 2025 @ 9:22 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000rdsr. Event ids that are associated: us7000rdsr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:22:38 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 160.564 East, latitude 52.9588 North, depth = 46.047 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 46.047 km (29 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days one hundred, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and thirty-nine 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 130 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.564° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.9588° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.047 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130 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 2025-11-06 21:22:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-28 06:08:05 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.159 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us7000rdsr Id of event.
Event Code 7000rdsr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rdsr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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