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

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Ōfunato in Japan on Tuesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 74.338 km (46 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/05/25 / 2025-05-06 09:22:16 / May 6, 2025 @ 9:22 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.8323 East, latitude 38.7006 North, depth = 74.338 km. The temblor was detected at 09:22:16 / 9:22 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pxgj. Unique identifier: us7000pxgj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kitakami, Tomiya, Yamada (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 42 km SSE of Ōfunato, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.8323° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.7006° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	74.338 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42 km SSE of Ōfunato, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-06 09:22:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-06 09:47:40	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.169	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	142	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	us7000pxgj	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pxgj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pxgj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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