A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Honchō in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.814 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.7489 East, latitude 41.7464 North, depth = 57.814 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/10/25 / 2025-10-01 02:56:38 / October 1, 2025 @ 2:56 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 02:56:38 / 2:56 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rivv. Unique identifier: us6000rivv.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shizunai-furukawachō. Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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