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Thu, 7 Aug 2025, 07:55 | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR

Just 9 minutes ago, a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Yonakuni, Yaeyama-gun, Okinawa, Japan. The tremor was recorded in the afternoon on Thursday, August 7th, 2025, at 4:45 pm local time, at an intermediate depth of 103.40 km below the surface.
The event was filed by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the first seismological agency to report it.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from France’s Réseau National de Surveillance Sismique (RéNaSS) which listed the quake at magnitude 5.9. Other agencies reporting the same quake include the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake at magnitude 6.0, and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) at magnitude 6.0.
Generally quakes of this magnitude are recorded by more than one agency and the results can vary, with subsequent reports that come in after the first one often showing more accuracy.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake was probably felt by many people in the area of the epicenter. It should not have caused significant damage, other than objects falling from shelves, broken windows, etc.
In Yonakuni (pop. 1,700) located 6 km from the epicenter, the quake should have been felt as light shaking.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Ishigaki (pop. 44,800) located 121 km from the epicenter, Yilan (pop. 94,200) 126 km away, Keelung (pop. 397,500) 142 km away,

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Date and TimeMag
DepthDistanceLocationDetailsMap Aug 3, 02:41 pm (GMT +9)

4.5

225 km20 km (13 mi) to the W 33 km south of Niigata, Niigata, Japan  I FELT IT InfoJul 30, 09:39 am (GMT +9)

4.7

412 km43 km (27 mi) to the W 8.7 km west of Sanjo, Niigata, Japan  I FELT IT InfoJul 20, 04:12 pm (GMT +9)

4.3

141 km63 km (39 mi) to the SE 37 km southwest of Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan 1 reportInfoJun 11, 03:14 am (GMT +9)

4.2

134 km36 km (22 mi) to the SE 27 km west of Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan InfoApr 9, 12:30 am (GMT +9)

4.2

308 km73 km (45 mi) to the NE Japan: Southern Yamagata Pref InfoJan 23, 02:49 am (GMT +9)

4.8

10 km74 km (46 mi) to the S 20 km NNE of Katashina, Japan 9 reportsInfoJan 1, 2024 04:10 pm (GMT +9)

7.5

10 km183 km (114 mi) to the W Ishikawa-ken, 85 km north of Takaoka, Toyama, Japan 191 reportsInfoJul 9, 2023 04:51 am (GMT +9)

4.8

411 km41 km (25 mi) to the NW 15 km southwest of Niigata, Niigata, Japan InfoMar 16, 2022 11:36 pm (GMT +9)

7.3

41 km198 km (123 mi) to the E North Pacific Ocean, 67 km south of Tashiro Jima Island, Miyagi, Japan 101 reportsInfoFeb 13, 2021 11:07 pm (GMT +9)

7.0

56 km201 km (125 mi) to the E Near East Coast of Honshu, Japan 472 reportsInfoAug 6, 2020 12:06 pm (GMT +9)

5.0

183 km48 km (30 mi) to the SW Near West Coast of Honshu, Japan 1 reportInfoNov 19, 2015 09:33 am (Universal Time)

5.1

10 km96 km (59 mi) to the NE 16 km southwest of

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