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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 25 km NNW of Hakui, Japan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Hakui in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/03/25 / 2025-03-19 04:25:15 / March 19, 2025 @ 4:25 am. Id of earthquake: us6000pzpl. Event ids that are associated: us6000pzpl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 136.6489° East, latitude 37.0845° North, depth = 10 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:25:15 / 4:25 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Komatsu (c. 109 000 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Matsutō (c. 68 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Nanto-shi (c. 55 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Himi (c. 54 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Komatsu, Nyūzen, Kamiichi (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	136.6489° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.0845° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 km NNW of Hakui, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-19 04:25:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-19 04:42:24	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	385	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	102	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.359	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59	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	us6000pzpl	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pzpl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pzpl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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