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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Chichi-shima in Japan

Posted by admin on November 20, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 26.3794S, 142.7055WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 91 km SSE of Chichi-shima, Japan (57 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 142.7055 East, latitude 26.3794 North, depth = 12.89 km. The temblor was detected at 15:31:52 / 3:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.89 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: 20/11/15 / 2015-11-20 05:31:52 / November 20, 2015 @ 5:31 am. Id of earthquake: us10003zrf. Event ids that are associated: us10003zrf.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 91 km SSE of Chichi-shima, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.7055° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.3794° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km SSE of Chichi-shima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-20 05:31:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-20 05:55:16 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 3.43 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 465 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 0.852 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us10003zrf Id of event.
Event Code 10003zrf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zrf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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