An earthquake on a scale of 7.7 is measured off the coast of Sanriku, Japan. A subsequent 80-centimetre (2.6 ft) high tsunami is reported in Kuji, Iwate prefecture. The situation is critical and the risk of potential further earthquakes at 8.0 were issued soon after.
Eight people are killed, including two children, and three others are injured in two separate drowning incidents in the Kaveri river in Mysore district, Karnataka, India.
Four people, including two foreign nationals, are arrested in Jolfa, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, on charges related to importing Starlink equipment and alleged intelligence activities involving networks linked to Israel and the U.S.
American company Blue Origin successfully launches its New Glenn rocket using a reused booster, which it recovers after liftoff, but the communications satellite it carried for AST SpaceMobile is placed in an incorrect orbit.