A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Kuji in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 46.237 km, 141.8514° East, 40.2577° North. The temblor was picked up at 21:47:23 / 9:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/09/25 / 2025-09-20 21:47:23 / September 20, 2025 @ 9:47 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000rgxc. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rgxc. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.237 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hanawa, Yamada, Morioka-shi. The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Hanawa (c. 36 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop). Nearby 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 10 km NE of Kuji, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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