A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Imabetsu in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 140.6781 East, latitude 41.2934 North, depth = 138.052 km. Unique identifier: us7000qrmp. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qrmp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 138.052 km (86 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:17:40 / 6:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/25 / 2025-08-05 06:17:40 / August 5, 2025 @ 6:17 am.
Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 52 km (33 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Hakodate (c. 275 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Goshogawara (c. 49 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Misawa, Hirosaki, Kuroishi.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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: 20 km NE of Imabetsu, Japan.
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