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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Yamada in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Yamada in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 65.465 km, 141.8959° East, 39.4671° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 65.465 km (41 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:26:36 / 9:26 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/08/25 / 2025-08-30 09:26:36 / August 30, 2025 @ 9:26 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qsj6. Id of event: us7000qsj6.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ichinohe, Ichinoseki, Shizukuishi (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km W of Yamada, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.8959° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4671° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65.465 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km W of Yamada, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-30 09:26:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-30 09:43:53	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	354	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	59	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.467	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	137	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	us7000qsj6	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qsj6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qsj6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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