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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Anamizu in Japan

Posted by admin on June 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.133S, 136.4925WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Anamizu in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/06/25 / 2025-06-06 04:48:01 / June 6, 2025 @ 4:48 am. Exact location of earthquake, 136.4925° East, 37.133° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us6000qlgs. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qlgs. The temblor was picked up at 04:48:01 / 4:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nyūzen, Kamiichi, Uozu (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Komatsu (c. 109 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Matsutō (c. 68 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Nanto-shi (c. 55 300 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 twenty-seven 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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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: 37 km WSW of Anamizu, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.4925° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.133° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 km WSW of Anamizu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-06 04:48:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-21 00:22:18 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 298 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.493 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us6000qlgs Id of event.
Event Code 6000qlgs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qlgs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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