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M5.3 Earthquake Strikes Near Miyazaki, Japan

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Close-up of a rotating drum seismograph with paper wrapped around it, covered in rows of inked seismic traces including dense bursts of rapid oscillation.
Ink traces on a rotating drum seismograph. The fine, rapid oscillations are the high-frequency part of the shaking that physics-based simulations resolve least well. Illustrative photograph, not a record of the earthquake described here."Seismogram at Weston Observatory" by Z22, via wikimedia, CC-BY-SA-3.0

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck 44 kilometers east-southeast of Miyazaki, in Japan's Kyushu region, at a depth of 10 kilometers, at 23:59 UTC on Oct. 24, 2026 (8:59 a.m. local time on Oct. 25, 2026, in Japan), the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Two people had told the agency they felt the quake, as of Oct. 25, 2026.

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By Kate AlbrekhtWriter

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