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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 36 km ESE of Hitachi, Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Hitachi in Japan on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, 140.9927° East, 36.4284° North, depth 59.611 km. The temblor was detected at 19:13:39 / 7:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/08/25 / 2025-08-13 19:13:39 / August 13, 2025 @ 7:13 pm. Event id: us6000r0ej. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r0ej. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 59.611 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yaita, Kuroiso, Shisui. Earthquake epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-eight 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. 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 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: 36 km ESE of Hitachi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.9927° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4284° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	59.611 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 km ESE of Hitachi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-13 19:13:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-13 19:31:34	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	369	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	116	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.246	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	us6000r0ej	Id of event.
Event Code	6000r0ej	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000r0ej,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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