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Strong earthquake, 6.8 mag strikes near Ofunato in Japan

Posted by admin on May 12, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.902S, 142.0324WA earthquake magnitude 6.8 (mg/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Ofunato in Japan. The temblor was reported at 06:12:58 / 6:12 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 38.86 km (24 miles). Global time of event 12/05/15 / 2015-05-12 21:12:58 / May 12, 2015 @ 9:12 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Ofunato in Japan, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 142.0324 East, latitude 38.902 North, depth 38.86 km, unique identifier, us20002et4.

Close countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 123 km (76 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 117 km (73 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iwanuma, Yokotemachi, Yuzawa.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.0324° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.902° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km SE of Ofunato, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-12 21:12:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-12 21:34:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 26 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.93 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 1 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 728 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 ,pt,at,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 1.42 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20002et4 Id of event.
Event Code 20002et4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt15132051,at00no99ln,us20002et4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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