Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Honchō in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 116 km S of Honchō, Japan (72 miles) on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us6000rtlw. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rtlw. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.621 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:04:53 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 39.621 km, 142.9096° East, 41.0781° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/12/25 / 2025-12-09 10:04:53 / December 9, 2025 @ 10:04 am.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.9096° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.0781° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.621 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	116 km S of Honchō, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-09 10:04:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-09 17:19:10	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	298	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	57	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.954	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	140	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	us6000rtlw	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rtlw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rtlw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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