Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Yamada in Japan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 133 km ESE of Yamada, Japan (83 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/11/25 / 2025-11-19 02:23:19 / November 19, 2025 @ 2:23 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 02:23:19 / 2:23 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rp2h. Unique identifier: us6000rp2h. Exact location, longitude 143.4678° East, latitude 39.2352° North, depth = 10 km.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days sixty-four and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 133 km ESE of Yamada, Japan.

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