Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 59 km SW of Kurio, Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 59 km SW of Kurio, Japan (37 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 129.9543 East, latitude 29.922 North, depth = 19.286 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/09/25 / 2025-09-13 14:22:22 / September 13, 2025 @ 2:22 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000rf4e. Event ids that are associated: us6000rf4e. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:22:22 / 2:22 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 19.286 km (12 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 59 km SW of Kurio, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	129.9543° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.922° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.286 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59 km SW of Kurio, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-13 14:22:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-11 18:55:49	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.639	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us6000rf4e	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rf4e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rf4e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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