Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Takedamachi in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Takedamachi in Japan. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/07/25 / 2025-07-18 09:58:32 / July 18, 2025 @ 9:58 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 131.4446° East, 33.0795° North, depth 107.596 km. The temblor was reported at 09:58:32 / 9:58 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qde0. Unique identifier: us7000qde0. The epicenter was at a depth of 107.596 km (67 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iizuka, Ōmuta, Tosu (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ōmuta (c. 132 000 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Beppu (c. 125 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Iizuka (c. 78 200 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km NNE of Takedamachi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.4446° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.0795° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	107.596 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km NNE of Takedamachi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-18 09:58:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-26 00:49:54	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	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	66	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.777	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	94	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	us7000qde0	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qde0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qde0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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