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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Honchō in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Honchō in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 84.587 km, 139.9899° East, 35.7579° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 84.587 km (53 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/10/25 / 2025-10-26 13:34:57 / October 26, 2025 @ 1:34 pm. The temblor was detected at 13:34:57 / 1:34 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000rjk2. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rjk2.

The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tamamura, Fujioka, Ōmamachō-ōmama (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km N of Honchō, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.9899° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7579° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	84.587 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km N of Honchō, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-26 13:34:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-26 14:18:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	343	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	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.64	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	121	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	us6000rjk2	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rjk2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rjk2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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