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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Sōma in Japan

Posted by admin on March 25, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.8552S, 141.7132WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Sōma in Japan. Event id: us7000pme1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pme1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:19:36 / 11:19 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 63.604 km (40 miles). Global time and date of event 24/03/25 / 2025-03-24 23:19:36 / March 24, 2025 @ 11:19 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.7132 East, latitude 37.8552 North, depth = 63.604 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Tomiya (c. 42 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tomiya, Wakuya, Ōkawara (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 three and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 69 km E of Sōma, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7132° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.8552° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.604 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 km E of Sōma, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-24 23:19:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-25 00:10:13 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.973 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 159 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 us7000pme1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pme1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pme1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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