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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Hanawa in Japan

Posted by admin on April 10, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9475S, 140.2939WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Hanawa in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 140.2939° East, 36.9475° North, depth 98.684 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:20:16 / 2:20 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/03/25 / 2025-03-12 14:20:16 / March 12, 2025 @ 2:20 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 98.684 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000pybe. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pybe.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sano, Tanuma, Fukushima-shi (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-one 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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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 10 km W of Hanawa, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.2939° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9475° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98.684 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km W of Hanawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-12 14:20:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-10 09:34:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 312 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 96 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.723 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us6000pybe Id of event.
Event Code 6000pybe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pybe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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