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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Hiroo in Japan

Posted by admin on June 3, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.7994S, 143.5407WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 57 km SSE of Hiroo, Japan (35 miles). The temblor was picked up at 13:18:27 / 1:18 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000qhnr. Event ids that are associated: us6000qhnr. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.169 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/06/25 / 2025-06-03 13:18:27 / June 3, 2025 @ 1:18 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.5407 East, latitude 41.7994 North, depth = 38.169 km.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 57 km SSE of Hiroo, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.5407° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.7994° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.169 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57 km SSE of Hiroo, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-03 13:18:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-03 13:36:52 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 165 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.358 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us6000qhnr Id of event.
Event Code 6000qhnr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qhnr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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