Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Ōfunato in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Ōfunato in Japan on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us7000peuz. Event ids that are associated: us7000peuz. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:25:57 / 11:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 67.764 km (42 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 142.4166 East, latitude 38.8611 North, depth = 67.764 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/02/25 / 2025-02-19 23:25:57 / February 19, 2025 @ 11:25 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tōno, Yamada, Ōtsuchi. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Tōno (c. 26 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 65 km ESE of Ōfunato, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.4166° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8611° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	67.764 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	65 km ESE of Ōfunato, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-19 23:25:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-19 23:44:04	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	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.189	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	142	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	us7000peuz	Id of event.
Event Code	7000peuz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000peuz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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