Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Ōfunato in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Ōfunato in Japan on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66.307 km (41 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:09:52 / 10:09 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/11/25 / 2025-11-24 10:09:52 / November 24, 2025 @ 10:09 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 142.0357 East, latitude 38.9111 North, depth = 66.307 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ru6l. Unique identifier: us6000ru6l.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yamoto, Kitakami, Wakuya (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 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 three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 32 km ESE of Ōfunato, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.0357° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.9111° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	66.307 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km ESE of Ōfunato, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-24 10:09:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-12 11:37:30	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.02	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	155	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	us6000ru6l	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ru6l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ru6l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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