Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 17 km ESE of Tarama, Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Tarama in Japan on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 09:12:21 / 9:12 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000pd5b. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pd5b. Exact location of event, longitude 124.8727 East, latitude 24.6293 North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/02/25 / 2025-02-04 09:12:21 / February 4, 2025 @ 9:12 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ishigaki, Hirara (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km ESE of Tarama, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.8727° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.6293° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km ESE of Tarama, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-04 09:12:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-27 15:45:26	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	312	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	71	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.632	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	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	us7000pd5b	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pd5b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pd5b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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