A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Miyako in Japan. Event id: us6000resi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000resi. 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 53.247 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 142.1935 East, latitude 39.7457 North, depth = 53.247 km. Global time and date of event 04/10/25 / 2025-10-04 14:15:19 / October 4, 2025 @ 2:15 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:15:19 / 2:15 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ichinohe, Morioka-shi, Ōfunato (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tōno (c. 26 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 has occurred nearby.
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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: 24 km ENE of Miyako, Japan.
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