A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 74.439 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 23/12/25 / 2025-12-23 15:04:43 / December 23, 2025 @ 3:04 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 15:04:43 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000rkcs. Event ids that are associated: us7000rkcs. Exact location of event, depth 74.439 km, 159.5652° East, 53.127° North.
Epicenter of the event was 62 km (38 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 63 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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