A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 98 kilometers (61 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 23:10:08 / 11:10 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qx5e. Id of event: us7000qx5e. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 42.563 km (26 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/09/25 / 2025-09-18 23:10:08 / September 18, 2025 @ 11:10 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.0341 East, latitude 52.8251 North, depth = 42.563 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop). 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and one and in the last 365 days one thousand and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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