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

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Nishio in Japan. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000q4qa. Unique identifier: us6000q4qa. Exact location of event, depth 29.028 km, 137.1184° East, 34.8863° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/04/25 / 2025-04-08 10:26:11 / April 8, 2025 @ 10:26 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29.028 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:26:11 / 10:26 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iida, Kanaya, Ueno-ebisumachi (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 38 km (24 miles) from Nagoya-shi (c. 2 191 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hamamatsu (c. 605 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Gifu-shi (c. 397 700 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Toyohashi (c. 378 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Toyota (c. 362 400 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Okazaki (c. 352 400 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km ENE of Nishio, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	137.1184° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.8863° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.028 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km ENE of Nishio, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-08 10:26:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-09 06:25:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	65	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.468	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us6000q4qa	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q4qa	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q4qa,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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