M4.3 Earthquake Hits Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture Islands on Tuesday Morning

The Yomiuri Shimbun

9:30 JST, July 1, 2025

An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 4.3 hit Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, at around 6:49 a.m. on Tuesday. It measured 4 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in Toshima in the prefecture.

The hypocenter was about 20 kilometers below sea level, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.