A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Kitaibaraki in Japan. Global time and date of event 28/08/25 / 2025-08-28 19:54:31 / August 28, 2025 @ 7:54 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 19:54:31 / 7:54 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000qrqz. Event ids that are associated: us7000qrqz. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 88.349 km (55 miles). Exact location of event, depth 88.349 km, 141.1045° East, 36.6504° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iwase, Sukagawa, Itako (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (30 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kashima-shi (c. 65 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 35 km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan.

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