Tokyo [Japan], October 5 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 shook Japan on late Saturday night time, a press release by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) mentioned.
As per the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 50km.
In a put up on X, the NCS mentioned, ‘EQ of M: 6.0, On: 04/10/2025 20:51:09 IST, Lat: 37.45 N, Long: 141.52 E, Depth: 50 Km, Location: Near East Coast of Honshu, Japan.’
https://x.com/NCS_Earthquake/status/1974501266106753427
The entire nation is in a really lively seismic space, they usually have the densest seismic community on the earth, so they can document many earthquakes.
Japan is located in a volcanic zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire. Frequent low-intensity tremors and occasional volcanic exercise are felt all through the islands. Destructive earthquakes, typically leading to tsunamis, happen a number of occasions per century. The most up-to-date main quakes embody the 2024 Noto earthquake, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, the 2004 Chuetsu earthquake, and the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995.
In Japan, the Shindo scale is often used to measure earthquakes by seismic depth as a substitute of magnitude. This is just like the Modified Mercalli depth scale used within the United States, the Liedu scale utilized in China or the European Macroseismic Scale (EMS), which means that the size measures the depth of an earthquake at a given location as a substitute of measuring an power supply an earthquake releases at its epicentre (its magnitude) because the Richter scale does.
Unlike different seismic depth scales, which usually have twelve ranges of depth, shindo (seismic depth, actually ‘diploma of shaking’) as utilized by the Japan Meteorological Agency is a unit with ten ranges, starting from shindo zero, a really gentle tremor, to shindo seven, a extreme earthquake.
Intermediate ranges for earthquakes with shindo 5 and 6 are ‘weak’ or ‘robust’, in keeping with the diploma of destruction they trigger. Earthquakes measured at shindo 4 and decrease are thought of to be weak to delicate, whereas these measured at 5 and above may cause heavy injury to furnishings, wall tiles, wood homes, strengthened concrete buildings, roads, fuel and water pipes. (ANI)