A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Tomioka in Japan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qus5. Id of event: us7000qus5. The epicenter was at a depth of 46.013 km (29 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 14:04:15 / 2:04 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/25 / 2025-09-08 14:04:15 / September 8, 2025 @ 2:04 pm. Exact location of event, depth 46.013 km, 141.9062° East, 37.028° North.

Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Namie (c. 21 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Namie, Iwaki (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 85 km ESE of Tomioka, Japan.

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