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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 53.0333S, 159.5739WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. The temblor was reported at 13:18:34 / 1:18 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000rfie. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000rfie. Exact location, longitude 159.5739° East, latitude 53.0333° North, depth = 59.225 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.225 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 04/12/25 / 2025-12-04 13:18:34 / December 4, 2025 @ 1:18 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. 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: 63 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.5739° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.0333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.225 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 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 2025-12-04 13:18:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-04 13:40:12 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 354 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.558 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us7000rfie Id of event.
Event Code 7000rfie An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rfie, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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