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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Chichi-shima in Japan


Earthquake location 26.2904S, 142.6789WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 99 km SSE of Chichi-shima, Japan (62 miles) on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude 142.6789 East, latitude 26.2904 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 20/11/15 / 2015-11-20 05:33:58 / November 20, 2015 @ 5:33 am UTC/GMT. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:33:58 / 3:33 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us100040s8. Ids that are associated to the event: us100040s8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 99 km SSE of Chichi-shima, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.6789° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.2904° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km 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 05:33:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-18 13:33:39 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 400 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 0.916 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us100040s8 Id of event.
Event Code 100040s8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040s8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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