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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Shiranuka in Japan


Earthquake location 42.4681S, 144.2369WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Shiranuka in Japan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rdxu. Id of event: us7000rdxu. Exact location of event, longitude 144.2369 East, latitude 42.4681 North, depth = 79.145 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/11/25 / 2025-11-26 16:43:57 / November 26, 2025 @ 4:43 pm. The temblor was detected at 16:43:57 / 4:43 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.145 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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 Otofuke, Obihiro, Kushiro (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Obihiro (c. 173 900 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Otofuke (c. 40 900 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 56 km SSE of Shiranuka, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.2369° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.4681° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.145 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56 km SSE of Shiranuka, 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 16:43:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-26 17:21:07 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 369 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 90 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.921 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us7000rdxu Id of event.
Event Code 7000rdxu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rdxu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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