Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 93 km E of Yamada, Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 93 km E of Yamada, Japan (58 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 143.0305 East, latitude 39.5659 North, depth = 34.797 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/11/25 / 2025-11-08 21:35:57 / November 8, 2025 @ 9:35 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.797 km (22 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000re6d. Event ids that are associated: us7000re6d. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:35:57 / 9:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-seven, in the last 10 days seventy-six, in the past 30 days seventy-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 93 km E of Yamada, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.0305° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.5659° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.797 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	93 km E of Yamada, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-08 21:35:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-30 04:31:06	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	259	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.94	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	198	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	us7000re6d	Id of event.
Event Code	7000re6d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000re6d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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