Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Miyako in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 92 km E of Miyako, Japan (57 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 09/11/25 / 2025-11-09 11:01:33 / November 9, 2025 @ 11:01 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.0199 East, latitude 39.6898 North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:01:33 / 11:01 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000recn. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000recn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 92 km E of Miyako, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.0199° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.6898° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	92 km E of Miyako, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-09 11:01:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-01 13:39:39	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	246	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.856	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	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	us7000recn	Id of event.
Event Code	7000recn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000recn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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