Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Ikeda in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Ikeda in Japan on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us7000qx0z. Event ids that are associated: us7000qx0z. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 136.3314 East, latitude 35.6962 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 16:44:24 / 4:44 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/08/25 / 2025-08-24 16:44:24 / August 24, 2025 @ 4:44 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Nagoya-shi (c. 2 191 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kyoto (c. 1 459 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Gifu-shi (c. 397 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kasugai (c. 298 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Ōtsu-shi (c. 298 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Yokkaichi (c. 295 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kyoto, Mizunami, Kamigyō-ku.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km S of Ikeda, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	136.3314° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6962° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km S of Ikeda, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-24 16:44:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-21 19:23:49	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	259	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.666	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	us7000qx0z	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qx0z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qx0z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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