Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Beppu in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Beppu in Japan on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/04/25 / 2025-04-17 23:57:35 / April 17, 2025 @ 11:57 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 131.3791° East, 33.2513° North, depth 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000q6xf. Event ids that are associated: us6000q6xf. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:57:35 / 11:57 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Kitakyūshū (c. 997 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Shimonoseki (c. 245 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Ube (c. 173 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Uto, Yanagawa, Hōfu (min 5000 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 quakes 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 one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

Questions or comments?

Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km WSW of Beppu, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.3791° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.2513° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km WSW of Beppu, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-17 23:57:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-05 23:29:52	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	271	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.906	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	128	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	us6000q6xf	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q6xf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q6xf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Beppu in Japan

Questions or comments?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information