Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Ishigaki in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Ishigaki in Japan on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 101.69 km (63 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:23:42 / 3:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 123.8417° East, 24.9457° North, depth 101.69 km. Event id: us7000pcp6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pcp6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/02/25 / 2025-02-02 03:23:42 / February 2, 2025 @ 3:23 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ishigaki (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 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 eleven and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 73 km NNW of Ishigaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.8417° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.9457° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	101.69 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73 km NNW of Ishigaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-02 03:23:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-12 00:15:35	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	284	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.668	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us7000pcp6	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pcp6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pcp6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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