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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Kushima in Japan

Posted by admin on March 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.1115S, 131.3999WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Kushima in Japan on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/03/25 / 2025-03-28 19:45:16 / March 28, 2025 @ 7:45 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 19:45:16 / 7:45 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 46.3 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 131.3999° East, latitude 31.1115° North, depth = 46.3 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000png7. Unique identifier: us7000png7.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kajiki, Kagoshima-shi, Hamanoichi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Kagoshima-shi (c. 555 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Hamanoichi (c. 39 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 44 km SSE of Kushima, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.3999° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.1115° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44 km SSE of Kushima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-28 19:45:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-29 17:03:19 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 326 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 123 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.903 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us7000png7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000png7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000png7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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