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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Yawatahama in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Yawatahama in Japan. The temblor was picked up at 11:17:52 / 11:17 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 47.109 km (29 miles). Exact location of event, depth 47.109 km, 132.2038° East, 33.3154° North. Global time and date of event 03/06/25 / 2025-06-03 11:17:52 / June 3, 2025 @ 11:17 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qhm7. Id of event: us6000qhm7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nobeoka, Iwakuni, Hōjō (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Matsuyama (c. 443 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Beppu (c. 125 100 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Iwakuni (c. 104 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Tokuyama (c. 101 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Tsurusaki (c. 77 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km SW of Yawatahama, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	132.2038° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.3154° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.109 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km SW of Yawatahama, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-06-03 11:17:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-04 10:23:33	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	2.7	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	312	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	49	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.457	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us6000qhm7	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qhm7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qhm7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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