A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Kushima in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:13:32 / 2:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 131.5181 East, latitude 31.0289 North, depth = 35 km. Unique identifier: us6000q5fj. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000q5fj. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/04/25 / 2025-04-02 14:13:32 / April 2, 2025 @ 2:13 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Ibusuki (c. 29 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Kushima (c. 22 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sueyoshichō-ninokata (c. 20 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tarumizu, Miyakonojō, Ibusuki (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-six 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 57 km SSE of Kushima, Japan.
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