Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 16 km NE of Iwaki, Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Iwaki in Japan on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pary. Id of event: us7000pary. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 68.622 km (43 miles). Exact location, longitude 141.0275° East, latitude 37.1407° North, depth = 68.622 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:13:12 / 8:13 am (local time epicenter). 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 08:13:12 / February 2, 2025 @ 8:13 am.

Epicenter of the event was 16 km (10 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kuroiso (c. 61 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Marumori, Kuroiso, Yanagawamachi-saiwaichō (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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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: 16 km NE of Iwaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.0275° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.1407° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	68.622 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km NE of Iwaki, 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 08:13:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-27 07:34:48	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	259	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.339	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	142	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	us7000pary	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pary	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pary,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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