Just 9 minutes ago, a 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Naze, Amami Shi, Kagoshima-ken, Japan. The tremor was recorded after midnight on Monday, July 7th, 2025, at 12:12 am local time, at a shallow depth of 11.60 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 citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake which listed the quake at magnitude 4.9.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 Tatsugo (pop. 6,000) located 97 km from the epicenter, and Naze (pop. 41,400) 106 km away.VolcanoDiscovery will automatically update magnitude and depth if these change and follow up if other significant news about the quake become available. If you’re in the area, please send us your experience through our reporting mechanism, either online or via our mobile app. This will help us provide more first-hand updates to anyone around the globe who wants to know more about this quake.Earthquake data: Date & time: Jul 7, 2025 12:12 am (GMT +9) local time (6 Jul 2025 15:12 GMT)Magnitude: 5.0Depth: 11.60 kmEpicenter latitude / longitude: 29.32°N / 129.53°E (Kagoshima-gun, Kagoshima-ken, Japan)Primary data source: NIED