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Magnitude 5.0 earthquake strikes near Ofunato, Ōfunato-shi, Iwate, Japan

Published: 12 October 2025
Categories: Global Earthquake Activity

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Mon, 13 Oct 2025, 03:34 | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR

An earthquake of magnitude 5.0 occurred only 7 minutes ago 77 km southeast of Ofunato, Japan, Japan’s National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) reported.
The quake hit at a moderately shallow depth of 63.40 km beneath the epicenter near Ofunato, Ōfunato-shi, Iwate, Japan, around noon on Monday, October 13th, 2025, at 12:25 pm local time. The exact magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake might be revised within the next few hours or minutes as seismologists review data and refine their calculations, or as other agencies issue their report.
A second report was later issued by the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake, which listed it as a magnitude 4.6 earthquake.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Ofunato (pop. 35,500) located 77 km from the epicenter, Rikuzen-Takata (pop. 18,300) 77 km away, Kamaishi (pop. 43,100) 87 km away, and Ishinomaki (pop. 138,500) 95 km away.
Other towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Ichinoseki (pop. 114,500) located 113 km from the epicenter.
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Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA EMS OBS to 19000 ft (5800 m)

Published: 12 October 2025
Categories: Global Volcano Activity

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Background:

Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, towers to 5426 m 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America’s 2nd-highest volcano.  The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 250-450 m deep crater.  The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano. 
At least three previous major cones were destroyed by gravitational failure during the Pleistocene, producing massive debris-avalanche deposits covering broad areas south of the volcano.  The modern volcano was constructed to the south of the late-Pleistocene to Holocene El Fraile cone.  Three major plinian eruptions, the most recent of which took place about 800 AD, have occurred from Popocatépetl since the mid Holocene, accompanied by pyroclastic flows and voluminous lahars that swept basins below the volcano.  Frequent historical eruptions, first recorded in Aztec codices, have occurred since precolumbian

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Moderate mag. 4.7 earthquake – North Pacific Ocean, 93 km southeast of Ofunato, Iwate, Japan, on Monday, Oct 13, 2025, at 12:25 pm (GMT +9)

Published: 12 October 2025
Categories: Global Earthquake Activity

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Date and TimeMag
DepthDistanceLocationDetailsMap Oct 10, 09:25 pm (GMT +9)

4.0

60 km96 km (59 mi) to the SW North Pacific Ocean, 64 km southeast of Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan  I FELT IT InfoOct 10, 09:24 pm (GMT +9)

4.0

55 km99 km (61 mi) to the SW North Pacific Ocean, 62 km southeast of Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan  I FELT IT InfoOct 10, 09:24 pm (GMT +9)

4.0

57 km99 km (61 mi) to the SW Japan: SE Off Miyagi Pref  I FELT IT InfoOct 1, 11:50 pm (GMT +9)

4.8

79 km62 km (39 mi) to the W North Pacific Ocean, Iwate, 61 km northeast of Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan 4 reportsInfoSep 25, 03:03 am (GMT +9)

4.6

55 km57 km (35 mi) to the NW North Pacific Ocean, 38 km east of Ofunato, Iwate, Japan InfoAug 30, 01:29 am (GMT +9)

5.5

44 km45 km (28 mi) to the SW 63 km E of Onagawa Chō, Japan 38 reportsInfoAug 22, 07:34 am (GMT +9)

5.7

50 km46 km (28 mi) to the W 51 km SE of Ōfunato, Japan 9 reportsInfoJun 14, 07:47 pm (GMT +9)

5.0

55 km56 km (35 mi) to the W 45 km ENE of Onagawa Chō, Japan 4 reportsInfoFeb 13, 06:04 am (GMT +9)

5.0

56 km45 km (28 mi) to the SW North Pacific Ocean, 72 km east of Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan 6 reportsInfoNov 26, 2024 01:31 pm (GMT +9)

5.3

44 km44 km (27 mi) to the W 52 km SE of Ōfunato, Japan 6 reportsInfoMar 16, 2022 11:36 pm (GMT +9)

7.3

41 km132 km (82 mi) to the SW 57 km ENE of Namie, Japan 101 reportsInfoMay 1, 2021

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