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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Kushima in Japan

Posted by admin on April 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.1273S, 131.4441WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Kushima in Japan on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 131.4441 East, latitude 31.1273 North, depth = 25.734 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.734 km (16 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000q3jg. Unique identifier: us6000q3jg. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/04/25 / 2025-04-02 21:42:51 / April 2, 2025 @ 9:42 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:42:51 / 9:42 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Kagoshima-shi (c. 555 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Hamanoichi (c. 39 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kajiki, Kagoshima-shi, Hamanoichi (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 44 km SSE of Kushima, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.4441° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.1273° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.734 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 2025-04-02 21:42:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-02 21:59:56 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 340 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.93 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us6000q3jg Id of event.
Event Code 6000q3jg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000q3jg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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