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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Hachinohe in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Hachinohe in Japan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pumd. Id of event: us7000pumd. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.6961 East, latitude 40.4859 North, depth = 74.094 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/25 / 2025-04-24 00:07:54 / April 24, 2025 @ 12:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 00:07:54 / 12:07 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74.094 km (46 miles).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Kuroishi (c. 38 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hanawa (c. 36 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Namioka (c. 20 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Namioka, Miyako, Kuroishi (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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 16 km E of Hachinohe, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.6961° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4859° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	74.094 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km E of Hachinohe, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-24 00:07:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-24 00:19:59	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	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.568	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	141	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	us7000pumd	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pumd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pumd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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