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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Tatsugō in Japan

Posted by admin on July 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.2436S, 129.2443WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Tatsugō in Japan. The temblor was reported at 06:26:49 / 6:26 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us7000qa5e. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qa5e. Exact location of event, longitude 129.2443 East, latitude 29.2436 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/07/25 / 2025-07-02 06:26:49 / July 2, 2025 @ 6:26 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naze (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 94 km NNW of Tatsugō, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.2443° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.2436° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94 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 06:26:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-02 06:44:53 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 482 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 101 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.488 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us7000qa5e Id of event.
Event Code 7000qa5e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qa5e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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