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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Yamada in Japan

Posted by admin on November 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.5727S, 143.206WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 108 kilometers (67 miles) from Yamada in Japan. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:29:19 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 143.206° East, 39.5727° North, depth 35.066 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.066 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/11/25 / 2025-11-08 20:29:19 / November 8, 2025 @ 8:29 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000rmag. Event ids that are associated: us6000rmag. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miyako, Yamada. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 109 km (68 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 108 km E of Yamada, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.206° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.5727° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.066 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108 km E of Yamada, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-08 20:29:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-08 20:47:26 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.042 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rmag Id of event.
Event Code 6000rmag An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rmag, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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