M4.5 earthquake 10 km ENE of Yamada, Japan
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck 10 km ENE of Yamada, Japan on Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 9:08 PM JST (12:08 UTC), 52 km (33 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.6 49 km SE of Kamaishi, Japan. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.5 (Mwr, regional moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-07-25 12:08:04 UTC
- Depth
- 52.4 km (32.6 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 39.503° N, 142.059° E
- Region
- Japan
- Felt reports
- 1
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
1 person reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was III, weak shaking.
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Reverse (thrust)
- Moment magnitude
- 4.5 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 44°, dip 23°, rake 115°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 196°, dip 69°, rake 80°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 6.4 km horizontally, 5.8 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.08
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 117°
- Stations used
- 270
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 5 in the 60 days after this one and 2 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.376 km ESE of ?funato, Japan · 3351 days ago · 35 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.346 km ESE of ?funato, Japan · 3346 days ago · 54 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.434 km SE of ?funato, Japan · 3345 days ago · 52 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.649 km SE of Kamaishi, Japan · 3331 days ago · 29 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.355 km ESE of ?funato, Japan · 3330 days ago · 54 km deep · 76 km away
Before
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us2000a0ts. Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC.