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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Moriya in Japan

Posted by admin on November 7, 2015 1 Comment

Earthquake location 35.9309S, 139.9822WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Moriya in Japan. Id of earthquake: us10003vjs. Event ids that are associated: us10003vjs. Exact location of earthquake, 139.9822° East, 35.9309° North, depth 106.07 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 106.07 km (66 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 13:44:44 / November 7, 2015 @ 1:44 pm UTC/GMT. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:44:44 / 10:44 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Takahagi, Shibukawa, Annaka (min 5000 pop). 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 five and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 1 km W of Moriya, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.9822° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9309° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km W of Moriya, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-07 13:44:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-07 14:03:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 34 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 444 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 0.343 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us10003vjs Id of event.
Event Code 10003vjs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vjs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. Dimitra

    I felt it in the house, furniture was shaking but it was not strong and didnt last long.

    November 7, 2015
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