A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Miyako in Japan on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/02/25 / 2025-02-06 22:05:19 / February 6, 2025 @ 10:05 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 72.579 km (45 miles). Unique identifier: us7000pdnn. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pdnn. The temblor was picked up at 22:05:19 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 141.8981 East, latitude 39.7574 North, depth = 72.579 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hachinohe, Kitakami, Hanamaki (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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: 12 km NNW of Miyako, Japan.
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