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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Shintoku in Japan

Posted by admin on February 7, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.2641S, 142.728WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Shintoku in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 158.079 km (98 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 158.079 km, 142.728° East, 43.2641° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/02/25 / 2025-02-07 03:36:00 / February 7, 2025 @ 3:36 am. Unique identifier: us7000pc06. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pc06. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 03:36:00 / 3:36 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chitose, Kitahiroshima, Tōbetsu. Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Asahikawa (c. 356 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Obihiro (c. 173 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Ebetsu (c. 134 000 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Chitose (c. 92 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Iwamizawa (c. 85 100 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Kitahiroshima (c. 62 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Takikawa (c. 45 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 22 km NNW of Shintoku, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.728° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.2641° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 158.079 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km NNW of Shintoku, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-07 03:36:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-07 03:55:56 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 369 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 104 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.86 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us7000pc06 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pc06 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pc06, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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