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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Hitachi-Naka in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Hitachi-Naka in Japan on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/03/25 / 2025-03-22 09:41:59 / March 22, 2025 @ 9:41 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 68.889 km (43 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000plu0. Event ids that are associated: us7000plu0. Exact location of event, longitude 140.586 East, latitude 36.415 North, depth = 68.889 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:41:59 / 9:41 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kasukabe (c. 206 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yotsukaidō, Narutō, Kukichūō (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km ENE of Hitachi-Naka, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.586° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.415° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	68.889 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km ENE of Hitachi-Naka, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-22 09:41:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-23 06:11:33	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.92	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	135	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	us7000plu0	Id of event.
Event Code	7000plu0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000plu0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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