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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Hirara in Japan


Earthquake location 25.6353S, 124.8355WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 103 kilometers (64 miles) from Hirara in Japan. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:36:07 / 11:36 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000rpgr. Event ids that are associated: us6000rpgr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/25 / 2025-11-20 23:36:07 / November 20, 2025 @ 11:36 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 120.25 km (75 miles). Exact location, longitude 124.8355° East, latitude 25.6353° North, depth = 120.25 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 104 km (64 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 103 km NNW of Hirara, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.8355° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.6353° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 120.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103 km NNW of Hirara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-20 23:36:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-21 00:15:09 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 400 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 1.364 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us6000rpgr Id of event.
Event Code 6000rpgr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rpgr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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