Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Takayama in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Takayama in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/05/25 / 2025-05-29 06:28:59 / May 29, 2025 @ 6:28 am. The temblor was detected at 06:28:59 / 6:28 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qjvi. Id of event: us6000qjvi. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 137.4035 East, latitude 35.998 North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iwakura, Kasugai, Nonoichi. The epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Gifu-shi (c. 397 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kasugai (c. 298 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Matsumoto (c. 210 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Komaki (c. 151 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km SE of Takayama, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	137.4035° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.998° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km SE of Takayama, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-29 06:28:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-13 09:49:25	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.395	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	us6000qjvi	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qjvi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qjvi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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