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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Aso in Japan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Aso in Japan. Id of earthquake: us7000rdmh. Event ids that are associated: us7000rdmh. 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, 131.1067° East, 33.0542° North. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:01:18 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/11/25 / 2025-11-25 09:01:18 / November 25, 2025 @ 9:01 am.

Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Fukuoka-shi (c. 1 392 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kitakyūshū (c. 997 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Shimonoseki (c. 245 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Ube (c. 173 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tsuma, Takanabe, Ōmura (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 13 km N of Aso, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.1067° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.0542° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km N of Aso, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-25 09:01:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-25 09:20:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.6	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	449	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	73	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.637	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	31	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	us7000rdmh	Id of event.
Event Code	7000rdmh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000rdmh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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