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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Katashina in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Katashina in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/01/25 / 2025-01-22 23:09:04 / January 22, 2025 @ 11:09 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000plqf. Event ids that are associated: us6000plqf. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:09:04 / 11:09 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 139.358° East, 36.9676° North, depth 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maki, Yorii, Iwase. The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Maebashi-shi (c. 282 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Takasaki (c. 240 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Nagaoka (c. 195 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Oyama (c. 159 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ashikaga (c. 159 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kumagaya (c. 155 800 pop).

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

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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: 16 km NNE of Katashina, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.358° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9676° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km NNE of Katashina, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-22 23:09:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-22 23:35:30	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	49	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.018	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	121	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	us6000plqf	Id of event.
Event Code	6000plqf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000plqf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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