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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Ie in Japan

Posted by admin on May 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 26.8756S, 127.2824WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Ie in Japan on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 104.222 km (65 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:15:37 / 9:15 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/25 / 2025-04-29 21:15:37 / April 29, 2025 @ 9:15 pm. Event id: us7000pzdw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pzdw. Exact location of event, longitude 127.2824 East, latitude 26.8756 North, depth = 104.222 km.

Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Itoman, Tomigusuku, Katsuren-haebaru (min 5000 pop). Close 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 one and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 55 km WNW of Ie, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.2824° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.8756° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104.222 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55 km WNW of Ie, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-04-29 21:15:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-15 22:30:11 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 284 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.885 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us7000pzdw Id of event.
Event Code 7000pzdw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pzdw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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