Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 77 km ESE of Tomioka, Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Tomioka in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/11/25 / 2025-11-14 15:01:54 / November 14, 2025 @ 3:01 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 141.8347° East, 37.0946° North, depth 57.278 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.278 km (36 miles). Unique identifier: us6000rn8q. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rn8q. The temblor was reported at 15:01:54 / 3:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Namie, Iwaki (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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 77 km ESE of Tomioka, 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	141.8347° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.0946° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.278 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	77 km ESE of Tomioka, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-14 15:01:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-14 15:25:30	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	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.961	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	150	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	us6000rn8q	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rn8q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rn8q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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