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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Namie in Japan

Posted by admin on April 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.8111S, 141.5916WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Namie in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.67 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 40.67 km, 141.5916° East, 37.8111° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:19:45 / 9:19 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005k66. Id of event: us20005k66. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/04/16 / 2016-04-20 12:19:45 / April 20, 2016 @ 12:19 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 116 km (72 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 118 km (73 miles) from Yamagata-shi (c. 254 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamagata-shi, Kōriyama, Motomiya (min 5000 pop).

Every 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 63 km NE of Namie, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.5916° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.8111° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km NE of Namie, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-20 12:19:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-20 12:52:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 28 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 527 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 0.637 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us20005k66 Id of event.
Event Code 20005k66 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005k66, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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