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Witness location : Osaka (Japan) (16 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 4 min

Mild tremor

Witness location : Osaka (Japan) (17 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 38 min

A rua tremeu tudo!!! O trem até bateu!!!

Witness location : Ōsaka-shi (Japan) (17 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 48 min

A rua tremeu toda. A ponte em cima de mim que passava o trem tremeu toda e o trem parece que até tinha batido, mas acho que era o terremoto mesmo.

Witness location : Osaka (Japan) (20 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 54 min

My whole group woke up to everything shaking loudly in our air bnb on the fifth floor of our appartment in Osaka. There was about 5-8 seconds of intense shaking then about 20 seconds after was swaying. I was stumbling around the appartment and it felt hard to keep my ballance.

Witness location : Konohana (Japan) (21 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 684 min

In a hotel 8th floor at Universal City. Our building swayed for around 10-15 seconds and everything stopped. Nothing else happened.

Witness location : Nishinomiya-shi (Japan) (21 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 22 min

Shaking for a couple of seconds. Strong enough to have some bottles and other items fall over. Two more shakes after that, a couple minutes later, one brief and maybe 2 seconds short, the second one hardly noticable and not even a second long.

Witness location : Nara (Japan) (27 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 100 min

Second earthquake after a lighter one on Friday(?) night. 
Quite some shaking, water spilling out of the aquarium (without fish, no casualties 😀).
Grabbed the children and ran out to meet the neighbours on the street. 
Doors of cupboards in the kitchen blocked by safety mechanism, worked nicely. Power, water okay, don't see any damage at the house. 
School and Kindergarten continue.

Witness location : Kyōto-shi (Japan) (27 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 66 min

strong shaking for 3s. one bottle has fallen down the floor. 4F Kyoto. Doors to escape blocked!!

Witness location : Kyōto-shi (Japan) (29 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 3 min

Séisme fortement ressenti à Kyoto. Pas de dommage matériel apparent.

Witness location : Nara-shi (Japan) (33 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 29 min

Walking down Road in Nara.... Powerlines shaking, birds flying, shutters rattling

Witness location : Toyoyama (Japan) (135 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 19 min

At Nagoya Airport (Toyoyama-cho), announcement over speaker system alerted earthquake was happening, felt small movements.

Witness location : Shinshiro-shi (Japan) (180 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 10 min

Brief sound and then shaking for a few seconds.

Witness location : Okinoshima-chō (Japan) (251 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 10 min

Felt on Oki, slight horizontal movements.