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Strong earthquake, 6.7 mag strikes near Kuji in Japan


Earthquake location 40.9S, 143WA earthquake magnitude 6.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 130 kilometers (81 miles) from Kuji in Japan. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/12/25 / 2025-12-12 02:44:12 / December 12, 2025 @ 2:44 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kuji in Japan (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 143° East, latitude 40.9° North, depth = 16 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 02:44:12 / 2:44 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pt25346000, at00t74y9q. Unique identifier: at00t74y9q.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hachinohe. Epicenter of the event was 134 km (83 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop).

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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: 130 km NE of Kuji, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.9° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130 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 2025-12-12 02:44:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-12 02:55:58 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 1 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 at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 136 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53.99999568 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00t74y9q Id of event.
Event Code 00t74y9q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt25346000,at00t74y9q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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