A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Tomioka in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/12/25 / 2025-12-13 22:52:58 / December 13, 2025 @ 10:52 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 140.9931° East, latitude 37.2402° North, depth = 59.635 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:52:58 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000ruqm. Event ids that are associated: us6000ruqm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 59.635 km (37 miles).
The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kuroiso (c. 61 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Funaishikawa, Ōkawara, Ōmiya. 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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