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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Takedamachi in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Takedamachi in Japan on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, 131.528° East, 32.9882° North, depth 80 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/08/25 / 2025-08-05 17:53:46 / August 5, 2025 @ 5:53 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 80 km (50 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000qydi. Event ids that are associated: us6000qydi. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:53:46 / 5:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yukuhashi, Takanabe, Kawasaki. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Beppu (c. 125 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Tsurusaki (c. 77 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Yukuhashi (c. 71 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Nakatsu (c. 67 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km ENE of Takedamachi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.528° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.9882° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	80 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km ENE 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	2025-08-05 17:53:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-05 19:42:51	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	2.2	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.733	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	128	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	us6000qydi	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qydi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qydi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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