A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Onagawa Chō in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 141.89 East, latitude 38.2353 North, depth = 68.806 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 00:27:15 / 12:27 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rn8t. Id of event: us6000rn8t. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/10/25 / 2025-10-24 00:27:15 / October 24, 2025 @ 12:27 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 68.806 km (43 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iwanuma, Furukawa, Sendai (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Tomiya (c. 42 500 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km ESE of Onagawa Chō, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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