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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Hirara in Japan


Earthquake location 27.0273S, 125.3536WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 246 km N of Hirara, Japan (153 miles) on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 26/11/25 / 2025-11-26 11:55:31 / November 26, 2025 @ 11:55 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:55:31 / 11:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 125.3536° East, latitude 27.0273° North, depth = 262.421 km. Event id: us7000rdwz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rdwz. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 262.421 km (163 miles).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 246 km N of Hirara, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.3536° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.0273° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 262.421 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 246 km N of Hirara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-26 11:55:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-26 12:15:12 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 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us7000rdwz Id of event.
Event Code 7000rdwz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rdwz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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