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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Katashina in Japan

Posted by admin on January 22, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9576S, 139.3007WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Katashina in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 139.3007 East, latitude 36.9576 North, depth = 7.347 km. Event id: us6000plms. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000plms. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/01/25 / 2025-01-22 17:49:29 / January 22, 2025 @ 5:49 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:49:29 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.347 km (5 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Maebashi-shi (c. 282 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Takasaki (c. 240 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Jōetsu (c. 204 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Nagaoka (c. 195 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Oyama (c. 159 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ashikaga (c. 159 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kōnosu, Ogawa, Suibara (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km NNE of Katashina, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.3007° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9576° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.347 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 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 17:49:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-22 18:23:22 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 354 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 116 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.97 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000plms Id of event.
Event Code 6000plms An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000plms, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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