Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 25 km E of Kikuchi, Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Kikuchi in Japan on Monday. Exact location, longitude 131.092° East, latitude 33.0126° North, depth = 10.7 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.7 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:42:00 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005jgz. Unique identifier: us20005jgz. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/04/16 / 2016-04-18 11:42:00 / April 18, 2016 @ 11:42 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōmura, Tsuma, Shimonoseki. Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Fukuoka-shi (c. 1 392 300 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Kitakyūshū (c. 997 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Shimonoseki (c. 245 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Ube (c. 173 700 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.092° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.0126° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km E of Kikuchi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-18 11:42:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-18 11:59:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	0.212	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	52	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	us20005jgz	Id of event.
Event Code	20005jgz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005jgz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

131.092° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

33.0126° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10.7 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

25km E of Kikuchi, Japan

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2016-04-18 11:42:00

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-04-18 11:59:45

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

540

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

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

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

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

0.212

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

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20005jgz

Id of event.

Event Code

20005jgz

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20005jgz,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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