Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Katsuren-haebaru in Japan

Posted by admin on March 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 26.161S, 128.3037WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Katsuren-haebaru in Japan. The temblor was picked up at 06:43:44 / 6:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/03/25 / 2025-03-04 06:43:44 / March 4, 2025 @ 6:43 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000pyl3. Event ids that are associated: us6000pyl3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 128.3037° East, 26.161° North, depth 23.226 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.226 km (14 miles).

The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Itoman, Naha-shi, Tomigusuku (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel it?

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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 46 km ESE of Katsuren-haebaru, Japan.

Copyright © 2025 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.3037° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.161° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.226 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46 km ESE of Katsuren-haebaru, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-04 06:43:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-16 08:19:50 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 298 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.673 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us6000pyl3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pyl3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pyl3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2025 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today