Just 13 minutes ago, a 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, Russia. The tremor was recorded early morning on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025, at 4:13 am local time, at a moderately shallow depth of 40. km below the surface.The event was filed by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the first seismological agency to report it.Our monitoring service identified a second report from the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake which listed the quake at magnitude 5.3. A third agency, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), reported the same quake at magnitude 5.3.Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter. Weak shaking might have been felt in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (pop. 181,200) located 112 km from the epicenter, Vilyuchinsk (pop. 25,200) 118 km away, and Paratunka (pop. 1,800) 128 km away.VolcanoDiscovery will automatically update magnitude and depth if these change and follow up if other significant news about the quake become available. If you’re in the area, please send us your experience through our reporting mechanism, either online or via our mobile app. This will help us provide more first-hand updates to anyone around the globe who wants to know more about this quake.Earthquake data: Date & time: Jul 22, 2025 04:13 am (GMT +11) local time (21 Jul 2025 17:13 GMT)Magnitude: 5.3Depth: 40.00 kmEpicenter latitude / longitude: 52.49°N / 160°E (Russia)Primary data source: EMSC