Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag was detected near Nemuro in Japan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Nemuro in Japan on Friday. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:40:10 / 4:40 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.407 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 145.6376° East, latitude 43.0043° North, depth = 41.407 km. Event id: us6000rj9f. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rj9f. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/10/25 / 2025-10-24 16:40:10 / October 24, 2025 @ 4:40 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yuzhno-Kuril’sk, Kushiro, Shibetsu. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 103 km (64 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop), 115 km (72 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop).

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 fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 35 km S of Nemuro, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.6376° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.0043° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41.407 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 km S of Nemuro, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-24 16:40:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-24 16:57:08	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	518	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.084	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113	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	us6000rj9f	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rj9f	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rj9f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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