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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Kushiro in Japan


Earthquake location 42.3032S, 144.7182WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Kushiro in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/08/25 / 2025-08-12 09:11:09 / August 12, 2025 @ 9:11 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r02g. Unique identifier: us6000r02g. Exact location of event, longitude 144.7182 East, latitude 42.3032 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 09:11:09 / 9:11 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kushiro (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 79 km SSE of Kushiro, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.7182° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.3032° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79 km SSE of Kushiro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-12 09:11:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-12 09:30:45 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 449 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 142 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us6000r02g Id of event.
Event Code 6000r02g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r02g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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