Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Kuji in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Kuji in Japan on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/08/25 / 2025-08-08 17:36:15 / August 8, 2025 @ 5:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.0158 East, latitude 40.4543 North, depth = 63.08 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qtax. Id of event: us7000qtax. 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 63.08 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 17:36:15 / 5:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ichinohe (c. 15 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miyako, Ichinohe, Misawa (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 36 km NE of Kuji, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.0158° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4543° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	63.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 km NE of Kuji, 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 17:36:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-02 21:35:49	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	298	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.798	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	159	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	us7000qtax	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qtax	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qtax,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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