Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Yamada in Japan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 114 km E of Yamada, Japan (71 miles) on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 143.2811° East, latitude 39.4593° North, depth = 41.651 km. Event id: us6000rmb3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rmb3. The temblor was reported at 22:33:50 / 10:33 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/11/25 / 2025-11-08 22:33:50 / November 8, 2025 @ 10:33 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 41.651 km (26 miles).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 114 km E of Yamada, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.2811° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4593° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41.651 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	114 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 22:33:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-08 22:50:44	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	385	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	58	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.157	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.99 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	103	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	us6000rmb3	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rmb3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rmb3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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