Thu, 1 Apr 2021, 04:50 04:50 AM | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR
4.8 quake 1 Apr 1:30 pm (GMT +9)
Just 12 minutes ago, a 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Mutsu, Mutsu-shi, Aomori, Japan. The tremor was recorded around noon on Thursday 1 April 2021 at 1:30 pm local time, at a moderately shallow depth of 62.4 km below the surface.
The event was filed by Japan s National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), the first seismological agency to report it.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) which listed the quake at magnitude 4.5.
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.
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