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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 45 km E of Namie, Japan


Earthquake location 37.4929S, 141.5151WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (mg/mb) has striked on Sunday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Namie in Japan. The temblor was reported at 13:02:52 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 42.41 km (26 miles). Global time of event 03/05/15 / 2015-05-03 04:02:52 / May 3, 2015 @ 4:02 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 141.5151 East, latitude 37.4929 North, depth 42.41 km, unique identifier, us20002axt.

Close countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 102 km (64 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishinomaki, Rifu, Kitaibaraki.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.5151° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4929° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km E of Namie, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-03 04:02:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-03 04:22:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 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 387 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.687 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20002axt Id of event.
Event Code 20002axt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002axt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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