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

Posted by admin on October 26, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5901S, 139.3407WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Midori in Japan. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:04:54 / 3:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.28 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000rjin. Event ids that are associated: us6000rjin. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/10/25 / 2025-10-26 03:04:54 / October 26, 2025 @ 3:04 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 139.3407 East, latitude 36.5901 North, depth = 10.28 km.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kashiwa, Kokubunji, Ushiku (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 468 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Tokorozawa (c. 339 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kawagoe (c. 337 900 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 16 km NNE of Midori, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.3407° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5901° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km NNE of Midori, 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 03:04:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-26 03:30:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 340 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.912 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us6000rjin Id of event.
Event Code 6000rjin An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rjin, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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