A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Kamaishi in Japan on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.8261 East, latitude 39.219 North, depth = 66.075 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000q50n. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000q50n. The temblor was detected at 23:33:21 / 11:33 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 66.075 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/04/25 / 2025-04-09 23:33:21 / April 9, 2025 @ 11:33 pm UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wakuya, Shizukuishi, Morioka-shi (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each 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 five and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km SSW of Kamaishi, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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