Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Miyako in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Miyako in Japan on Monday. Event id: us6000pzb9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pzb9. The temblor was detected at 12:57:19 / 12:57 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/03/25 / 2025-03-17 12:57:19 / March 17, 2025 @ 12:57 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 142.151° East, 39.8484° North, depth 62.024 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.024 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōfunato, Hachinohe, Morioka-shi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tōno (c. 26 800 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km NE of Miyako, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.151° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.8484° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	62.024 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28 km NE 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	2025-03-17 12:57:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-18 11:02:01	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	58	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.254	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	us6000pzb9	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pzb9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pzb9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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