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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Yamada in Japan

Posted by admin on November 9, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.4962S, 143.3802WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 123 km E of Yamada, Japan (76 miles). The temblor was reported at 09:10:47 / 9:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/11/25 / 2025-11-09 09:10:47 / November 9, 2025 @ 9:10 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 143.3802 East, latitude 39.4962 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000rmet. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rmet.

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

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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 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: 123 km E of Yamada, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.3802° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.4962° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123 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 2025-11-09 09:10:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-09 09:27:42 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 449 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 86 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.195 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us6000rmet Id of event.
Event Code 6000rmet An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rmet, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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