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

Posted by admin on August 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.0204S, 131.7755WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Takanabe in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:13:14 / 9:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/08/25 / 2025-08-16 21:13:14 / August 16, 2025 @ 9:13 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r1mt. Id of event: us6000r1mt. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.743 km (17 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 131.7755° East, 32.0204° North, depth 26.743 km.

Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 113 km (70 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Saiki (c. 49 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kanoya, Takedamachi, Kajiki.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 three and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 28 km ESE of Takanabe, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.7755° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.0204° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.743 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km ESE of Takanabe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-16 21:13:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-16 21:38:09 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 131 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.237 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 20 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 us6000r1mt Id of event.
Event Code 6000r1mt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r1mt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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