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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Hakui in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Hakui in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 136.3683 East, latitude 36.9857 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000pfmy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pfmy. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:09:00 / 7:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/02/25 / 2025-02-23 19:09:00 / February 23, 2025 @ 7:09 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nyūzen, Kamiichi, Uozu (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Komatsu (c. 109 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Matsutō (c. 68 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Nanto-shi (c. 55 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Himi (c. 54 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 38 km WNW of Hakui, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	136.3683° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9857° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km WNW of Hakui, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-23 19:09:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-23 19:34:14	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	83	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.538	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us7000pfmy	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pfmy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pfmy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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