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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Tatsugō in Japan


Earthquake location 29.4006S, 129.3189WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 108 km NNW of Tatsugō, Japan (67 miles) on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/06/25 / 2025-06-23 17:23:29 / June 23, 2025 @ 5:23 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.3189 East, latitude 29.4006 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us7000q88k. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000q88k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:23:29 / 5:23 pm (local time epicenter).

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 eleven, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 108 km NNW of Tatsugō, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.3189° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.4006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108 km NNW 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 2025-06-23 17:23:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-23 18:04:41 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.318 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us7000q88k Id of event.
Event Code 7000q88k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000q88k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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