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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Miyako in Japan

Posted by admin on December 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.8676S, 143.2263WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 112 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (70 miles) on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/11/25 / 2025-11-27 22:03:58 / November 27, 2025 @ 10:03 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rv0l. Id of event: us6000rv0l. Exact location of earthquake, 143.2263° East, 39.8676° North, depth 36.699 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 22:03:58 / 10:03 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36.699 km (23 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-two 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 112 km ENE of Miyako, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.2263° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.8676° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.699 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112 km ENE 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 2025-11-27 22:03:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-16 02:17:09 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 284 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.892 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us6000rv0l Id of event.
Event Code 6000rv0l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rv0l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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