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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 28 km S of Obihiro, Japan

Posted by admin on August 14, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.6654S, 143.1729WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Obihiro in Japan on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 143.1729° East, 42.6654° North, depth 86.8 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/08/15 / 2015-08-14 04:43:44 / August 14, 2015 @ 4:43 am. Event id: us1000326m. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000326m. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:43:44 / 1:43 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 86.8 km (54 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kushiro, Shimo-furano, Shizunai-furukawachō (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 104 km (65 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Obihiro (c. 173 900 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Otofuke (c. 40 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Shimo-furano (c. 25 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km S of Obihiro, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.1729° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6654° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 86.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km S of Obihiro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-14 04:43:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-14 05:03:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 0.65 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us1000326m Id of event.
Event Code 1000326m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000326m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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