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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Ishigaki in Japan

Posted by admin on July 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.9316S, 123.5824WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Ishigaki in Japan. Id of earthquake: us7000qa2i. Event ids that are associated: us7000qa2i. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 123.5824 East, latitude 23.9316 North, depth = 39.277 km. Global time and date of event 01/07/25 / 2025-07-01 20:55:27 / July 1, 2025 @ 8:55 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:55:27 / 8:55 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.277 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishigaki. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 74 km SW of Ishigaki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.5824° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.9316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.277 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74 km SW of Ishigaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-01 20:55:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-02 14:59:51 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 298 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 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000qa2i Id of event.
Event Code 7000qa2i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qa2i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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