Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Kagoshima in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Kagoshima in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/02/25 / 2025-02-19 10:36:24 / February 19, 2025 @ 10:36 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 138.345 km (86 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 10:36:24 / 10:36 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000peq9. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000peq9. Exact location, longitude 130.6168° East, latitude 31.53° North, depth = 138.345 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ushibuka, Miyazaki-shi, Minamata (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 6 km (4 miles) from Kagoshima-shi (c. 555 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Satsumasendai (c. 73 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 7 km ESE of Kagoshima, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.6168° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.53° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	138.345 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km ESE of Kagoshima, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-19 10:36:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-23 11:02:08	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	271	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.142	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	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	us7000peq9	Id of event.
Event Code	7000peq9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000peq9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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