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M5.1 Earthquake Near 14 km WNW of Naze, Japan Draws 1 Felt Reports

USGS Week reports M5.1 near 14 km WNW of Naze, Japan, with a 68.8 km catalog depth and 1 felt reports.

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News card for M5.1 Earthquake Near 14 km WNW of Naze, Japan Draws 1 Felt Reports

The event began at Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:28:22 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.1, 68.8 km catalog depth, and coordinates 28.395, 129.341.

The catalog location label is 14 km WNW of Naze, Japan; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is an intermediate-depth event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 2.82e+12 joules, or about 674 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.

1 public felt report is attached to the current catalog entry. Other attached observation fields include catalog significance score 400. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.

The USGS Week catalog currently marks the solution as reviewed. No station-count, phase-count, residual, gap, or uncertainty fields were supplied in the normalized record. 1 alternate network solution is retained for comparison.

The provider record does not carry a tsunami flag at publication time. Magnitude, depth, and location can change as monitoring networks add observations and review the solution.

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US event record: 14 km WNW of Naze, Japan — USGS Week
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