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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Tatsugō in Japan


Earthquake location 28.6548S, 130.0857WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Tatsugō in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 130.0857° East, latitude 28.6548° North, depth = 35.954 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/25 / 2025-03-09 04:24:23 / March 9, 2025 @ 4:24 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.954 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 04:24:23 / 4:24 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000pxrf. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pxrf.

The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naze (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 52 km ENE of Tatsugō, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.0857° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.6548° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.954 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 km ENE of Tatsugō, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-09 04:24:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-09 04:43:23 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 400 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 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.422 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000pxrf Id of event.
Event Code 6000pxrf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pxrf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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