{"id":12892,"date":"2026-04-27T20:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/12892\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:03:24","slug":"6-1-magnitude-earthquake-reported-in-japan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/12892\/","title":{"rendered":"6.1 Magnitude Earthquake Reported In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake<\/a> was reported in Japan on Sunday (April 26), according to the United States Geological Survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The earthquake<\/a> was reported 18 kilometers (about 11 miles) west of Sarabetsu and centered at a depth of 81 kilometers (about 50 miles) at 8:23 p.m. UTC. The USGS said it received 16 reports of people having felt the earthquake at the time of publication on Monday (April 27).<\/p>\n

The U.S. Tsunami Warning System confirmed that there was no active tsunami threat following the earthquake. No aftershocks were reported following the initial 6.1-magnitude earthquake.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s earthquake was the largest reported in Japan in the past week and among two within the past 24 hours; 24 within the past seven days; 66 within the past 30 days; and 784 within the past 365 days among earthquakes measuring 1.5-magnitude or greater. The earthquake was also the largest on the Hokkaido island in the past week and among three in the past seven days; eight in the past 30 days; and 219 in the past 365 days reported in the region measuring 1.5-magnitude or greater.<\/p>\n

Earthquakes measured between 2.5 and 5.4 magnitude can be felt by a large population, however, rarely results in much damage, according to Michigan Tech via the Sacramento Bee<\/a>. An estimated 500,000 detectable earthquakes are reported worldwide annually, however, around 100,000 are felt and only 100 typically result in serious damage.<\/p>\n

Officials strongly advise that anyone caught in an earthquake should drop, cover and hold on, according to the Sacramento Bee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 6.1-magnitude earthquake was reported in Japan on Sunday (April 26), according to the United States Geological Survey.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10688,10686,3805,1217,8,7660,33,84,7581,10687,10689],"class_list":{"0":"post-12892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-usgs_quakes","9":"tag-depth","10":"tag-earthquake","11":"tag-earthquakes","12":"tag-japan","13":"tag-magnitude-earthquake","14":"tag-nihon","15":"tag-u-s","16":"tag-united-states-geological-survey","17":"tag-usgs","18":"tag-usgs-earthquakes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}