A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Monday. Exact location, longitude 159.9218° East, latitude 52.957° North, depth = 63.834 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rwh3. Unique identifier: us6000rwh3. The temblor was reported at 11:18:51 / 11:18 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/12/25 / 2025-12-22 11:18:51 / December 22, 2025 @ 11:18 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 63.834 km (40 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 87 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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