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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Onagawa Chō in Japan

Posted by admin on June 14, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.5632S, 141.9477WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Onagawa Chō in Japan on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 55.039 km, 141.9477° East, 38.5632° North. Event id: us6000qk9r. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qk9r. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/06/25 / 2025-06-14 10:47:01 / June 14, 2025 @ 10:47 am. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:47:01 / 10:47 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 55.039 km (34 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamada, Sendai, Sendai-shi (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km ENE of Onagawa Chō, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.9477° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5632° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.039 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45 km ENE of Onagawa Chō, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-14 10:47:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-14 11:07:05 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 385 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.325 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us6000qk9r Id of event.
Event Code 6000qk9r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qk9r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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