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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Hakui in Japan

Posted by admin on February 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.1404S, 136.1208WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Hakui in Japan. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:56:50 / 12:56 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pev7. Unique identifier: us7000pev7. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 305.552 km (190 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/02/25 / 2025-02-20 00:56:50 / February 20, 2025 @ 12:56 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 136.1208 East, latitude 37.1404 North, depth = 305.552 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Komatsu (c. 109 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Matsutō (c. 68 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Nanto-shi (c. 55 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Himi (c. 54 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Nonoichi (c. 48 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nanto-shi, Nishishinminato, Fukumitsu (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 65 km WNW of Hakui, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.1208° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1404° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 305.552 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65 km WNW of Hakui, 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 00:56:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-20 01:19:39 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 85 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.773 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us7000pev7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pev7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pev7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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