A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Narita in Japan on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/08/25 / 2025-08-28 01:06:57 / August 28, 2025 @ 1:06 am. Exact location of event, depth 50.614 km, 140.3771° East, 35.8129° North. The temblor was picked up at 01:06:57 / 1:06 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rca9. Id of event: us6000rca9. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.614 km (31 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zushi, Minami-rinkan, Hitachi (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 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 six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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