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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Saiki in Japan

Posted by admin on July 12, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.9728S, 131.8242WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Saiki in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/07/15 / 2015-07-12 17:52:06 / July 12, 2015 @ 5:52 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 131.8242 East, latitude 32.9728 North, depth = 55.28 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:52:06 / 2:52 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us20002wz9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002wz9. The epicenter was at a depth of 55.28 km (34 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 107 km (67 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Beppu (c. 125 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Tsurusaki (c. 77 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Nakatsu (c. 67 400 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Hita (c. 61 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hikari, Kumamoto, Ueki (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km WNW of Saiki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.8242° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9728° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km WNW of Saiki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-12 17:52:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-12 18:12:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 450 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 0.81 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us20002wz9 Id of event.
Event Code 20002wz9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002wz9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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