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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 136 km E of Yamada, Japan


Earthquake location 39.3557S, 143.5239WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 136 km E of Yamada, Japan (85 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.69 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 143.5239 East, latitude 39.3557 North, depth = 15.69 km. Unique identifier: us10003uxr. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003uxr. The temblor was picked up at 04:02:54 / 4:02 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/11/15 / 2015-11-05 18:02:54 / November 5, 2015 @ 6:02 pm.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 136 km E of Yamada, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.5239° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3557° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 136km E of Yamada, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-05 18:02:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-05 18:22:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 385 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 2.605 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us10003uxr Id of event.
Event Code 10003uxr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003uxr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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