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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Ōsaki in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Ōsaki in Japan. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/25 / 2025-05-02 01:44:48 / May 2, 2025 @ 1:44 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 131.155° East, 31.1217° North, depth 59.631 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pwhs. Id of event: us7000pwhs. 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 01:44:48 / 1:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 59.631 km (37 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miyazaki-shi, Ijūin, Kaseda-shirakame (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Kagoshima-shi (c. 555 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 six and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 35 km SSE of Ōsaki, 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	131.155° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.1217° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	59.631 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 km SSE of Ōsaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-02 01:44:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-02 21:15:13	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.715	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	150	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	us7000pwhs	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pwhs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pwhs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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