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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 7 km SE of Shibata, Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Shibata in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 162.431 km (101 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 139.3865° East, latitude 37.9017° North, depth = 162.431 km. Global time and date of event 14/03/25 / 2025-03-14 15:04:59 / March 14, 2025 @ 3:04 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 15:04:59 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000pyut. Event ids that are associated: us6000pyut. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sagae, Yamagata-shi, Ryōtsu-minato (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Niigata-shi (c. 505 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yamagata-shi (c. 254 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Nagaoka (c. 195 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Yonezawa (c. 94 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Sanjō (c. 82 900 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Shibata (c. 80 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km SE of Shibata, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.3865° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.9017° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	162.431 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km SE of Shibata, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-14 15:04:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-14 15:32:09	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	271	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.65	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	141	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	us6000pyut	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pyut	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pyut,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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