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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Hiranai in Japan

Posted by admin on February 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.9099S, 140.9607WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Hiranai in Japan. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:48:20 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 101.848 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.9607 East, latitude 40.9099 North, depth = 101.848 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pdy0. Id of event: us7000pdy0. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/02/25 / 2025-02-15 07:48:20 / February 15, 2025 @ 7:48 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Goshogawara (c. 49 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Takanosu, Hanawa, Ichinohe.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 1 km SSE of Hiranai, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.9607° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.9099° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 101.848 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km SSE of Hiranai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-15 07:48:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-15 15:22:41 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 284 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.144 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us7000pdy0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pdy0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pdy0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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