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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Miyako in Japan

Posted by admin on November 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.767S, 143.1817WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 107 kilometers (66 miles) from Miyako in Japan on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 19:06:36 / 7:06 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/11/25 / 2025-11-17 19:06:36 / November 17, 2025 @ 7:06 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.838 km (26 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000rntu. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rntu. Exact location of event, depth 41.838 km, 143.1817° East, 39.767° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamada, Miyako. The epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifty-seven, in the past 30 days sixty-two and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 107 km E of Miyako, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.1817° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.767° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.838 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 107 km E of Miyako, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-17 19:06:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-17 19:24:59 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 98 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.915 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us6000rntu Id of event.
Event Code 6000rntu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rntu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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