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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Tatsugō in Japan


Earthquake location 28.9658S, 129.4781WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Tatsugō in Japan. Id of earthquake: us7000qa52. Event ids that are associated: us7000qa52. Exact location of event, longitude 129.4781 East, latitude 28.9658 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/07/25 / 2025-07-02 05:25:22 / July 2, 2025 @ 5:25 am. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:25:22 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naze. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days seventy-eight 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 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km NNW of Tatsugō, Japan. This data 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 129.4781° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.9658° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 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 2025-07-02 05:25:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-02 05:46:57 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 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.375 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us7000qa52 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qa52 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qa52, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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