Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Yamada in Japan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 104 kilometers (65 miles) from Yamada in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 22.865 km, 143.1194° East, 39.226° North. Unique identifier: us6000rmjg. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rmjg. The temblor was picked up at 03:00:20 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/11/25 / 2025-11-10 03:00:20 / November 10, 2025 @ 3:00 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.865 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 112 km (69 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miyako, Kamaishi, Ōtsuchi. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 104 km ESE of Yamada, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.1194° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.226° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	22.865 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	104 km ESE 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	2025-11-10 03:00:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-10 03:11:29	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	42	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.22	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	87	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	us6000rmjg	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rmjg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rmjg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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