Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Nemuro in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Nemuro in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.784 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 145.6761 East, latitude 43.0559 North, depth = 41.784 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/02/25 / 2025-02-25 06:00:35 / February 25, 2025 @ 6:00 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000px7k. Id of event: us6000px7k. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:00:35 / 6:00 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shibetsu, Nemuro. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 30 km SSE of Nemuro, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.6761° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.0559° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41.784 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 km SSE of Nemuro, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-25 06:00:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-14 11:11:15	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.133	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	180	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	us6000px7k	Id of event.
Event Code	6000px7k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000px7k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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