Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 108 km NE of Kuji, Japan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 108 kilometers (67 miles) from Kuji in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 142.7117 East, latitude 40.8471 North, depth = 36.089 km. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:52:24 / 2:52 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.089 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000rtw5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rtw5. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/12/25 / 2025-12-10 14:52:24 / December 10, 2025 @ 2:52 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Misawa, Hachinohe (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 109 km (68 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 113 km (70 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 108 km NE of Kuji, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.7117° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.8471° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36.089 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	108 km NE of Kuji, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-10 14:52:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-10 15:31:36	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	500	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	145	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.214	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	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	us6000rtw5	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rtw5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rtw5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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