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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Ishikawa in Japan

Posted by admin on May 13, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.1244S, 140.57WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Ishikawa in Japan on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 01:37:03 / 1:37 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 88.511 km (55 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/05/25 / 2025-05-13 01:37:03 / May 13, 2025 @ 1:37 am. Exact location of event, longitude 140.57 East, latitude 37.1244 North, depth = 88.511 km. Id of earthquake: us7000pyxl. Event ids that are associated: us7000pyxl.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kanuma, Shiroishi, Kaminokawa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 11 km ESE of Ishikawa, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.57° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1244° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.511 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km ESE of Ishikawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-13 01:37:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-13 02:02:47 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 88 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.984 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us7000pyxl Id of event.
Event Code 7000pyxl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pyxl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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