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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Oshino in Japan

Posted by admin on February 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.4914S, 138.907WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Oshino in Japan on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/02/25 / 2025-02-20 13:13:46 / February 20, 2025 @ 1:13 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:13:46 / 1:13 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.022 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 138.907 East, latitude 35.4914 North, depth = 33.022 km. Id of earthquake: us7000pexw. Event ids that are associated: us7000pexw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isesaki, Matsudo, Sugito (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km NE of Oshino, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.907° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.4914° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.022 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km NE of Oshino, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-20 13:13:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-20 16:28:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.191 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us7000pexw Id of event.
Event Code 7000pexw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pexw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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