A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Kushiro in Japan on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.852 km (21 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:55:12 / 5:55 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/06/25 / 2025-06-23 17:55:12 / June 23, 2025 @ 5:55 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 144.54 East, latitude 42.2121 North, depth = 33.852 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000q88q. Unique identifier: us7000q88q.
Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kushiro (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 85 km S of Kushiro, Japan.
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