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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Koshima in Japan


Earthquake location 29.9807S, 131.0132WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Koshima in Japan on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/05/25 / 2025-05-07 02:15:28 / May 7, 2025 @ 2:15 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 02:15:28 / 2:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 131.0132 East, latitude 29.9807 North, depth = 52.562 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.562 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000pxmb. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pxmb.

Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nishinoomote (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every 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 six and in the last 365 days thirty-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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 53 km ESE of Koshima, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.0132° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.9807° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.562 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 km ESE of Koshima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-07 02:15:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-07 02:36:38 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 326 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 1.598 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us7000pxmb Id of event.
Event Code 7000pxmb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pxmb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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