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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on August 5, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.521S, 141.5032WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Namie in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.05 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 20:56:09 / 8:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 141.5032° East, latitude 37.521° North, depth = 39.05 km. Event id: us10002y37. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002y37. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/08/15 / 2015-08-05 11:56:09 / August 5, 2015 @ 11:56 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamoto, Sukagawa, Matsushima (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 44 km E of Namie, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.5032° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.521° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km 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 2015-08-05 11:56:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-05 12:18:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 388 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 0.664 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us10002y37 Id of event.
Event Code 10002y37 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002y37, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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