Strong earthquake, 6.7 mag has occurred near Honchō in Japan

A earthquake magnitude 6.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 127 km S of Honchō, Japan (79 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.1481 East, latitude 40.9945 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:52:40 / 9:52 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 08/12/25 / 2025-12-08 21:52:40 / December 8, 2025 @ 9:52 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rtie. Id of event: us6000rtie.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 127 km S of Honchō, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.1481° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.9945° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	127 km S of Honchō, 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 21:52:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-08 22:16:10	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	691	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	125	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.02	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	48	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	us6000rtie	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rtie	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rtie,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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