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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 40 km SSE of Tateyama, Japan


Earthquake location 34.6318S, 139.9696WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Tateyama in Japan on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/25 / 2025-01-16 00:07:26 / January 16, 2025 @ 12:07 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.198 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000pkb1. Event ids that are associated: us6000pkb1. The temblor was detected at 00:07:26 / 12:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 51.198 km, 139.9696° East, 34.6318° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Atami, Ōiso, Hiratsuka (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Yokosuka (c. 429 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Fujisawa (c. 394 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Hiratsuka (c. 259 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Chigasaki (c. 231 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kamakura (c. 166 000 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Kisarazu (c. 122 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 40 km SSE of Tateyama, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.9696° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.6318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.198 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40 km SSE of Tateyama, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-16 00:07:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-16 00:21:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.518 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000pkb1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pkb1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pkb1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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