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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Mutsu in Japan


Earthquake location 41.3777S, 142.3024WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.3024° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.3777° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.257 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91 km E of Mutsu, 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 14:13:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-26 09:13:55 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.903 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 143 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 us7000peqt Id of event.
Event Code 7000peqt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000peqt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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