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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 4 km ENE of Funaishikawa, Japan


Earthquake location 36.4801S, 140.6182WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Funaishikawa in Japan on Tuesday. Exact location of event, depth 58.656 km, 140.6182° East, 36.4801° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/07/25 / 2025-07-15 14:47:11 / July 15, 2025 @ 2:47 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qcsr. Id of event: us7000qcsr. The temblor was detected at 14:47:11 / 2:47 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.656 km (36 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Koshigaya (c. 317 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Kasukabe (c. 206 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iwatsuki, Shōbu, Kisai.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 4 km ENE of Funaishikawa, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.6182° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4801° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.656 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km ENE of Funaishikawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-15 14:47:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-15 15:19:21 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 3.8 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 370 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 166 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.942 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000qcsr Id of event.
Event Code 7000qcsr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qcsr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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