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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Takahagi in Japan

Posted by admin on August 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4616S, 141.6041WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Takahagi in Japan. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:29:19 / 10:29 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000qz2l. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qz2l. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/25 / 2025-08-08 10:29:19 / August 8, 2025 @ 10:29 am. Exact location of earthquake, 141.6041° East, 36.4616° North, depth 35.711 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.711 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Katsuta, Hitachi-Naka, Ōarai. Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Funaishikawa (c. 35 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Takahagi (c. 33 600 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 six and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 84 km ESE of Takahagi, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.6041° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4616° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.711 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84 km ESE of Takahagi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-08 10:29:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-08 11:16:08 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 340 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 86 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.737 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000qz2l Id of event.
Event Code 6000qz2l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qz2l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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