Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Monday. The temblor was detected at 01:17:16 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 88.527 km (55 miles). Event id: us7000rfl0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rfl0. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 159.5708 East, latitude 53.2364 North, depth = 88.527 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/11/25 / 2025-11-17 01:17:16 / November 17, 2025 @ 1:17 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days seventy-nine and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 65 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	159.5708° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.2364° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	88.527 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	65 km ENE 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	2025-11-17 01:17:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-11 04:26:55	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.134	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	163	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	us7000rfl0	Id of event.
Event Code	7000rfl0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000rfl0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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