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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Tatsugō in Japan

Posted by admin on March 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.6898S, 130.0713WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Tatsugō in Japan on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000pzd9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pzd9. The temblor was detected at 19:07:05 / 7:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/03/25 / 2025-03-08 19:07:05 / March 8, 2025 @ 7:07 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.0713 East, latitude 28.6898 North, depth = 46.2 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.2 km (29 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naze. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 53 km ENE of Tatsugō, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.0713° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.6898° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 km ENE of Tatsugō, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-08 19:07:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-23 03:45:44 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 298 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 2.439 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us6000pzd9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pzd9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pzd9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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