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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Yamada in Japan


Earthquake location 39.5755S, 143.1905WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 107 kilometers (66 miles) from Yamada in Japan. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:11:25 / 8:11 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000rmee. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rmee. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 143.1905° East, 39.5755° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 09/11/25 / 2025-11-09 08:11:25 / November 9, 2025 @ 8:11 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miyako, Yamada (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 107 km (67 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 107 km E of Yamada, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.1905° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.5755° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 107 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 08:11:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-09 08:29:56 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 465 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 91 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.03 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us6000rmee Id of event.
Event Code 6000rmee An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rmee, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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