Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Teshikaga in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Teshikaga in Japan on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 135.491 km (84 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 14:58:21 / 2:58 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000pz6b. Event ids that are associated: us6000pz6b. Exact location of event, depth 135.491 km, 144.3216° East, 43.3146° North. Global time and date of event 16/03/25 / 2025-03-16 14:58:21 / March 16, 2025 @ 2:58 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Abashiri, Shibetsu, Kitami (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kitami (c. 113 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Abashiri (c. 42 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Bihoro (c. 23 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 23 km SW of Teshikaga, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	144.3216° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.3146° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	135.491 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 km SW of Teshikaga, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-16 14:58:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-16 15:56:49	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.489	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	155	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	us6000pz6b	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pz6b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pz6b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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