194 km S of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake was recorded 194 km S of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia at 18:15 UTC on 2026-10-07. This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 170 km (106 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 710× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.8 about 240 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 500× more

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log₁₀E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 54.4775, 162.5648. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 19:40 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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