Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Obihiro in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Obihiro in Japan. The epicenter was at a depth of 101.213 km (63 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/05/25 / 2025-05-15 13:05:49 / May 15, 2025 @ 1:05 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.3203 East, latitude 42.7988 North, depth = 101.213 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pzcn. Id of event: us7000pzcn. The temblor was detected at 13:05:49 / 1:05 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shimo-furano, Shizunai-furukawachō, Kushiro. Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Obihiro (c. 173 900 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Otofuke (c. 40 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Shimo-furano (c. 25 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km SE of Obihiro, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.3203° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.7988° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	101.213 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km SE of Obihiro, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-15 13:05:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-15 13:31:07	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	385	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	67	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.793	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	us7000pzcn	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pzcn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pzcn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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