Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Funaishikawa in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Funaishikawa in Japan. Event id: us7000regr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000regr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:50:50 / 9:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 75.885 km, 140.5221° East, 36.4732° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/11/25 / 2025-11-11 21:50:50 / November 11, 2025 @ 9:50 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 75.885 km (47 miles).

The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kasukabe (c. 206 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shiraoka, Tatebayashi, Kazo. Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 4 km W of Funaishikawa, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.5221° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4732° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	75.885 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km W of Funaishikawa, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-11 21:50:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-01 02:39:53	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	271	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.865	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	153	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	us7000regr	Id of event.
Event Code	7000regr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000regr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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