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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Miyako in Japan


Earthquake location 39.7574S, 141.8981WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Miyako in Japan on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/02/25 / 2025-02-06 22:05:19 / February 6, 2025 @ 10:05 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 72.579 km (45 miles). Unique identifier: us7000pdnn. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pdnn. The temblor was picked up at 22:05:19 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 141.8981 East, latitude 39.7574 North, depth = 72.579 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hachinohe, Kitakami, Hanamaki (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 12 km NNW of Miyako, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8981° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7574° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.579 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km NNW of Miyako, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-06 22:05:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-04 00:30:43 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.212 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us7000pdnn Id of event.
Event Code 7000pdnn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pdnn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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