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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on February 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.5226S, 141.4813WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Namie in Japan on Friday. Id of earthquake: us7000pf81. Event ids that are associated: us7000pf81. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52.579 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 141.4813° East, latitude 37.5226° North, depth = 52.579 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:01:46 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/02/25 / 2025-02-21 13:01:46 / February 21, 2025 @ 1:01 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 99 km (61 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 101 km (62 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sukagawa, Ishinomaki, Ishikawa (min 5000 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 42 km E of Namie, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.4813° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5226° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.579 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42 km E of Namie, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-21 13:01:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-21 13:20:58 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 94 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.795 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pf81 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pf81 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pf81, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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