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

Posted by admin on May 12, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.5768S, 141.9457WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Biratori in Japan on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:33:35 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 119.585 km (74 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000pywr. Event ids that are associated: us7000pywr. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.9457 East, latitude 42.5768 North, depth = 119.585 km. Global time and date of event 12/05/25 / 2025-05-12 21:33:35 / May 12, 2025 @ 9:33 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shimo-furano, Date, Ishikari. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Sapporo (c. 1 883 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Tomakomai (c. 174 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ebetsu (c. 134 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Muroran (c. 96 200 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Chitose (c. 92 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Iwamizawa (c. 85 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kitahiroshima (c. 62 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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. 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: 15 km W of Biratori, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.9457° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5768° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 119.585 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km W of Biratori, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-12 21:33:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-12 23:14:18 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 134 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.06 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us7000pywr Id of event.
Event Code 7000pywr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pywr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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