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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 239 km S of Hachijo-jima, Japan

Posted by admin on May 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.9337S, 140.0618WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 239 km S of Hachijo-jima, Japan (149 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:06:42 / 3:06 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 130.36 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 140.0618° East, latitude 30.9337° North, depth = 130.36 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/05/16 / 2016-05-21 06:06:42 / May 21, 2016 @ 6:06 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005j3l. Id of event: us10005j3l.

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 239 km S of Hachijo-jima, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.0618° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.9337° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 130.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 239km S of Hachijo-jima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-21 06:06:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-21 06:28:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 3.42 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 2.185 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us10005j3l Id of event.
Event Code 10005j3l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005j3l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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