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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Hakui in Japan

Posted by admin on December 14, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.0514S, 136.6483WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Hakui in Japan. Unique identifier: us6000ruui. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ruui. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.594 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 14/12/25 / 2025-12-14 19:03:36 / December 14, 2025 @ 7:03 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 19:03:36 / 7:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 136.6483° East, latitude 37.0514° North, depth = 8.594 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Komatsu (c. 109 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Matsutō (c. 68 200 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Nanto-shi (c. 55 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Himi (c. 54 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mikuni, Nyūzen, Kamiichi (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twelve 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.

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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. 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: 22 km NNW of Hakui, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.6483° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0514° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.594 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km NNW of Hakui, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-14 19:03:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-14 19:32:46 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 369 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 70 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.347 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us6000ruui Id of event.
Event Code 6000ruui An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ruui, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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