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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Katsuren-haebaru in Japan


Earthquake location 25.9471S, 128.5258WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Katsuren-haebaru in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/04/25 / 2025-04-01 23:59:52 / April 1, 2025 @ 11:59 pm. Exact location, longitude 128.5258° East, latitude 25.9471° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ppcu. Id of event: us7000ppcu. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:59:52 / 11:59 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nago, Naha-shi, Tomigusuku (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 77 km ESE of Katsuren-haebaru, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.5258° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.9471° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77 km ESE of Katsuren-haebaru, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-04-01 23:59:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-02 00:17:11 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.914 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us7000ppcu Id of event.
Event Code 7000ppcu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ppcu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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