A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Iwaki in Japan on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/01/25 / 2025-01-05 06:02:19 / January 5, 2025 @ 6:02 am. Exact location of earthquake, 141.1188° East, 36.9258° North, depth 48.538 km. Id of earthquake: us6000pkgi. Event ids that are associated: us6000pkgi. The temblor was detected at 06:02:19 / 6:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 48.538 km (30 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Event epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Karasuyama, Motomiya, Mito-shi. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 25 km ESE of Iwaki, Japan.
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