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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Yonakuni in Japan


Earthquake location 24.8753S, 123.4066WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan. The temblor was detected at 19:31:29 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 123.4066° East, 24.8753° North, depth 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pkzc. Id of event: us6000pkzc. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/01/25 / 2025-01-18 19:31:29 / January 18, 2025 @ 7:31 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishigaki. Event epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 61 km NE of Yonakuni, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.4066° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.8753° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61 km NE of Yonakuni, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-18 19:31:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-18 20:02:23 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 385 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.543 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us6000pkzc Id of event.
Event Code 6000pkzc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pkzc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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