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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Takahagi in Japan

Posted by admin on November 7, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4648S, 141.2847WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Takahagi in Japan on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, 141.2847° East, 36.4648° North, depth 35 km. Id of earthquake: us6000rkq5. Event ids that are associated: us6000rkq5. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/10/25 / 2025-10-11 03:30:33 / October 11, 2025 @ 3:30 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:30:33 / 3:30 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sawara, Katori-shi, Kasama. Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Katori-shi (c. 83 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kashima-shi (c. 65 800 pop).

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 four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 58 km ESE of Takahagi, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.2847° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4648° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km ESE of Takahagi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-11 03:30:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-07 04:49:55 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 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.479 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us6000rkq5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rkq5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rkq5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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