Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Mutsu in Japan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Mutsu in Japan on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 60.38 km (38 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/11/15 / 2015-11-01 03:48:48 / November 1, 2015 @ 3:48 am. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:48:48 / 12:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 60.38 km, 142.0263° East, 41.6078° North. Event id: us2000415b. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000415b.

Event epicenter was 109 km (68 miles) from Hakodate (c. 275 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hakodate, Shizunai-furukawachō, Mutsu (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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: 76 km ENE of Mutsu, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.0263° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.6078° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	76km ENE of Mutsu, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-11-01 03:48:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-01 04:08:35	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	2.7	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	432	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	0.938	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	115	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	us2000415b	Id of event.
Event Code	2000415b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000415b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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