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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 33 km ESE of Tsunō, Japan

Posted by admin on June 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.0824S, 131.8638WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Tsunō in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:30:11 / 12:30 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/06/25 / 2025-06-18 12:30:11 / June 18, 2025 @ 12:30 pm. Exact location of event, depth 41.538 km, 131.8638° East, 32.0824° North. Unique identifier: us6000ql0e. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ql0e. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.538 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Saiki (c. 49 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Tsuma (c. 34 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shibushi, Saiki, Sueyoshichō-ninokata (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km ESE of Tsunō, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.8638° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.0824° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.538 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km ESE of Tsunō, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-18 12:30:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-18 12:47:45 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 354 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 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.33 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us6000ql0e Id of event.
Event Code 6000ql0e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ql0e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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