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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 69 km ENE of Tatsugō, Japan


Earthquake location 28.6867S, 130.2581WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Tatsugō in Japan. The epicenter was at a depth of 24.816 km (15 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 130.2581 East, latitude 28.6867 North, depth = 24.816 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:57:13 / 6:57 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/03/25 / 2025-03-08 18:57:13 / March 8, 2025 @ 6:57 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000pzdc. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pzdc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naze (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km ENE of Tatsugō, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.2581° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.6867° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.816 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 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 18:57:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-02 19:17:29 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 354 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.548 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us6000pzdc Id of event.
Event Code 6000pzdc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pzdc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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