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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Funaishikawa in Japan

Posted by admin on August 6, 2015 1 Comment

Earthquake location 36.4972S, 140.5946WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Funaishikawa in Japan. Event id: us10002z24. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002z24. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:22:28 / 6:22 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44.29 km (28 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/08/15 / 2015-08-06 09:22:28 / August 6, 2015 @ 9:22 am. Exact location of event, depth 44.29 km, 140.5946° East, 36.4972° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tōgane, Saitama, Hatogaya-honchō. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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 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: 4 km NE of Funaishikawa, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.5946° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4972° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NE of Funaishikawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-06 09:22:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-06 09:50:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 416 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 0.42 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us10002z24 Id of event.
Event Code 10002z24 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002z24, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. Thinh Pham

    I could feel it shaking a bit at the office in Tokyo (Meguro-ku) this afternoon.

    August 6, 2015
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