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Strong earthquake: M6.2 quake has struck near Nishinoomote in Japan

Posted by admin on April 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.0017S, 131.4725WA earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ppfy. Id of event: us7000ppfy. Exact location, longitude 131.4725° East, latitude 31.0017° North, depth = 25.989 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.989 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/04/25 / 2025-04-02 14:03:57 / April 2, 2025 @ 2:03 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 14:03:57 / 2:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) from Kagoshima-shi (c. 555 400 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 119 km (74 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Hamanoichi (c. 39 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ijūin, Tsuma, Kaseda-shirakame.

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 54 km ENE of Nishinoomote, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.4725° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.0017° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.989 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 km ENE of Nishinoomote, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-04-02 14:03:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-02 14:20:27 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 591 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 177 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.009 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000ppfy Id of event.
Event Code 7000ppfy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ppfy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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