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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Namie in Japan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Namie in Japan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 60.133 km (37 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/10/25 / 2025-10-07 00:30:25 / October 7, 2025 @ 12:30 am. Exact location of event, depth 60.133 km, 141.3242° East, 37.5752° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rf7j. Unique identifier: us6000rf7j. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 00:30:25 / 12:30 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kitaibaraki, Tomiya, Yamoto. Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 30 km ENE of Namie, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.3242° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.5752° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60.133 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 km ENE of Namie, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-07 00:30:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-07 00:49:10	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	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.697	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138	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	us6000rf7j	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rf7j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rf7j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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