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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Hiroo in Japan


Earthquake location 41.7867S, 143.5414WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 58 km SSE of Hiroo, Japan (36 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 143.5414° East, 41.7867° North, depth 39.53 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.53 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:08:34 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/06/25 / 2025-06-01 19:08:34 / June 1, 2025 @ 7:08 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000qhag. Event ids that are associated: us6000qhag.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fourty-six 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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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. 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: 58 km SSE of Hiroo, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.5414° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.7867° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km SSE of Hiroo, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-01 19:08:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-01 19:42:35 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 340 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.366 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us6000qhag Id of event.
Event Code 6000qhag An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qhag, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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