A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Mutsu in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 19/02/25 / 2025-02-19 14:13:29 / February 19, 2025 @ 2:13 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 14:13:29 / 2:13 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 75.257 km (47 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000peqt. Unique identifier: us7000peqt. Exact location of event, longitude 142.3024 East, latitude 41.3777 North, depth = 75.257 km.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mutsu (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-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. 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: 91 km E of Mutsu, Japan.
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