A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Ōfunato in Japan. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qgxz. Unique identifier: us6000qgxz. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/05/25 / 2025-05-30 16:47:21 / May 30, 2025 @ 4:47 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 16:47:21 / 4:47 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 67.609 km (42 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 141.9613 East, latitude 38.9489 North, depth = 67.609 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kogota, Hanamaki, Yamoto (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop).
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-seven 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 25 km ESE of Ōfunato, Japan.
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