Japan earthquakes

M5.0 earthquake 62 km WNW of Yonakuni, Japan

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck 62 km WNW of Yonakuni, Japan on Tue, Jul 25, 2000, 6:10 AM GMT+8 (22:10 UTC), 128 km (79 mi) below the surface.

A larger quake followed: M5.3 72 km SW of Yonakuni, Japan. This one was a foreshock.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 5.0 (Mwc, centroid moment), moderate
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Tue, Jul 25, 2000, 6:10 AM GMT+8
UTC: 2000-07-24 22:10:35 UTC
Depth: 127.7 km (79.3 mi), intermediate-depth
Epicenter: 24.771° N, 122.478° E
Region: Japan
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Magnitude estimates

Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.

Mag.	Scale	Computed by	Notes
5.0	Mwc, centroid moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed
5.01	Mw, moment	ISC-GEM global catalog	Final · ±0.1
5.0	Mwc, centroid moment	Global CMT project	Preliminary

What happened

The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.

Recorded (3 TAP) in southern I-lan County; (2 TAP) at Hua-lien and I-lan; (1 TAP) at Chang-hua, Miao-li, Tai-chung and Taipei.

From the USGS event page for usp0009x4b. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.

Did you feel it?

No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.

Fault motion and ground failure

How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.

Faulting: Strike-slip
Nodal plane 1: Strike 179°, dip 36°, rake 4°
Nodal plane 2: Strike 86°, dip 88°, rake 126°

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Depth from: CONSTRAINED_BY_DEPTH_PHASES
Stations used: 122

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 2.0 and up: 5 in the 60 days after this one and 5 in the 30 days before it.

After

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp0009x4b (also filed as gcmtb072400f, gcmt20000724221035, iscgem1738254). Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 6:50 AM UTC.