Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Tatsugō in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Tatsugō in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, 129.3382° East, 29.1921° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us6000rfh7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rfh7. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 21:38:37 / 9:38 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/10/25 / 2025-10-07 21:38:37 / October 7, 2025 @ 9:38 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naze. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-two 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 86 km NNW of Tatsugō, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	129.3382° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.1921° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	86 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	2025-10-07 21:38:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-07 21:56:53	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	432	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	59	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.502	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	107	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	us6000rfh7	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rfh7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rfh7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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