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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Honchō in Japan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Honchō in Japan on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 129.821 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 140.5392° East, 42.067° North, depth 129.821 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:19:23 / 10:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/08/25 / 2025-08-18 22:19:23 / August 18, 2025 @ 10:19 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r1yj. Id of event: us6000r1yj.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) from Hakodate (c. 275 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Muroran (c. 96 200 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Kamiiso (c. 38 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Date (c. 35 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Nanae (c. 30 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Shiraoi (c. 20 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mutsu, Iwanai, Shiraoi.

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

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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: 23 km NW of Honchō, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.5392° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.067° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	129.821 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 km NW of Honchō, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-18 22:19:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-18 22:38:07	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	100	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.336	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	34	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	us6000r1yj	Id of event.
Event Code	6000r1yj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000r1yj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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