A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Sunday. Unique identifier: us6000rh3x. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rh3x. Exact location of earthquake, 159.8422° East, 53.3734° North, depth 64.818 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 64.818 km (40 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:44:07 / 2:44 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: 21/09/25 / 2025-09-21 14:44:07 / September 21, 2025 @ 2:44 pm.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-seven, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-seven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 88 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.
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