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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Hachinohe in Japan

Posted by admin on December 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.8436S, 142.5536WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Hachinohe in Japan on Monday. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:33:40 / 2:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 142.5536° East, latitude 40.8436° North, depth = 44.295 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/12/25 / 2025-12-08 14:33:40 / December 8, 2025 @ 2:33 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44.295 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rtdz. Unique identifier: us6000rtdz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Misawa, Hachinohe (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 96 km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.5536° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.8436° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.295 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96 km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-08 14:33:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-08 14:53:34 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 0 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 96 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.131 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rtdz Id of event.
Event Code 6000rtdz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rtdz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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