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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Ōfunato in Japan

Posted by admin on September 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.9527S, 142.1281WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Ōfunato in Japan. Id of earthquake: us6000rcm8. Event ids that are associated: us6000rcm8. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/09/25 / 2025-09-24 18:03:16 / September 24, 2025 @ 6:03 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 142.1281 East, latitude 38.9527 North, depth = 55.164 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:03:16 / 6:03 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.164 km (34 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wakuya, Kitakami, Ishinomaki (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 38 km ESE of Ōfunato, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.1281° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.9527° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.164 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 km ESE of Ōfunato, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-24 18:03:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-24 20:15:49 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 326 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 68 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.009 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us6000rcm8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rcm8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rcm8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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