A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Koshima in Japan on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/05/25 / 2025-05-07 02:15:28 / May 7, 2025 @ 2:15 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 02:15:28 / 2:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 131.0132 East, latitude 29.9807 North, depth = 52.562 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.562 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000pxmb. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pxmb.
Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nishinoomote (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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 one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-three 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 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: 53 km ESE of Koshima, Japan.
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