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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Kawasaki in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Kawasaki in Japan on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/05/25 / 2025-05-04 03:35:43 / May 4, 2025 @ 3:35 am. Exact location of event, longitude 139.7283 East, latitude 35.5952 North, depth = 86.875 km. The temblor was detected at 03:35:43 / 3:35 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 86.875 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000px0j. Event ids that are associated: us7000px0j. 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 Fujikawaguchiko, Kaminokawa, Fujioka (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop).

Each 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 four and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 8 km N of Kawasaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.7283° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.5952° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	86.875 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km N of Kawasaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-04 03:35:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-04 04:13:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.5	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	42	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.557	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	91	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	us7000px0j	Id of event.
Event Code	7000px0j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000px0j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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