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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Yamada in Japan

Posted by admin on November 13, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.3021S, 143.561WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 139 km E of Yamada, Japan (86 miles). Event id: us6000rn50. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rn50. The temblor was detected at 19:58:01 / 7:58 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 13/11/25 / 2025-11-13 19:58:01 / November 13, 2025 @ 7:58 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 143.561 East, latitude 39.3021 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 139 km E of Yamada, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.561° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3021° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 139 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 2025-11-13 19:58:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-13 20:15:18 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 93 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.424 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 101 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 us6000rn50 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rn50 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rn50, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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