Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Tatsugō in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Tatsugō in Japan on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pxrm. Id of event: us6000pxrm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.723 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:57:57 / 5:57 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/25 / 2025-03-09 05:57:57 / March 9, 2025 @ 5:57 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.0994 East, latitude 28.7346 North, depth = 38.723 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naze. Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 58 km ENE of Tatsugō, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.0994° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.7346° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.723 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58 km ENE of Tatsugō, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-09 05:57:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-09 06:15:43	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	416	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	2.489	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us6000pxrm	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pxrm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pxrm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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