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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Ishinomaki in Japan


Earthquake location 37.8374S, 141.7633WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, 141.7633° East, 37.8374° North, depth 58.47 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002yv0. Id of event: us20002yv0. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.47 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 18:16:49 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/07/15 / 2015-07-21 09:16:49 / July 21, 2015 @ 9:16 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Tomiya (c. 42 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Shiroishi (c. 39 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yanagawamachi-saiwaichō, Shiroishi, Kogota. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 76 km SSE of Ishinomaki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7633° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.8374° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km SSE of Ishinomaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-21 09:16:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-21 09:42:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 404 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 0.771 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us20002yv0 Id of event.
Event Code 20002yv0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002yv0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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