A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Sōsa in Japan on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 01:09:59 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/05/25 / 2025-05-27 01:09:59 / May 27, 2025 @ 1:09 am. Unique identifier: us6000qjnx. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000qjnx. The epicenter was at a depth of 53.007 km (33 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.5713 East, latitude 35.7227 North, depth = 53.007 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kamirenjaku, Mitaka-shi, Musashino. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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