Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Miyako in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Miyako in Japan on Monday. Unique identifier: us6000rlem. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rlem. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.54 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:06:06 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 49.54 km, 142.0396° East, 39.5908° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/10/25 / 2025-10-13 22:06:06 / October 13, 2025 @ 10:06 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ichinohe, Mizusawa, Shizukuishi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 10 km SE of Miyako, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.0396° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.5908° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	49.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km SE of Miyako, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-13 22:06:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-04 23:35:55	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.411	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	147	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	us6000rlem	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rlem	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rlem,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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