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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 46 km ENE of Noda, Japan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Noda in Japan. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:12:16 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 58.063 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 142.3491 East, latitude 40.2053 North, depth = 58.063 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/03/25 / 2025-03-08 07:12:16 / March 8, 2025 @ 7:12 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000pxln. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pxln.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ichinohe (c. 15 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōtsuchi, Misawa, Ichinohe (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 46 km ENE of Noda, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.3491° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.2053° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	58.063 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46 km ENE of Noda, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-08 07:12:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-08 07:27:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	416	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	80	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.14	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000pxln	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pxln	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pxln,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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