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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Takanabe in Japan


Earthquake location 31.9814S, 131.7958WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Takanabe in Japan on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rlyz. Id of event: us6000rlyz. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/11/25 / 2025-11-06 19:25:55 / November 6, 2025 @ 7:25 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 131.7958° East, latitude 31.9814° North, depth = 41.431 km. The temblor was detected at 19:25:55 / 7:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.431 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (22 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Tsuma (c. 34 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Takanabe (c. 22 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shibushi, Sueyoshichō-ninokata, Kobayashi (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 32 km ESE of Takanabe, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.7958° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9814° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.431 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km ESE of Takanabe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-06 19:25:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-06 19:50:37 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 312 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.237 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us6000rlyz Id of event.
Event Code 6000rlyz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rlyz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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