Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Kamaishi in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 249 km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan (155 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 144.528 East, latitude 38.3958 North, depth = 25.11 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/06/16 / 2016-06-10 12:07:02 / June 10, 2016 @ 12:07 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:07:02 / 10:07 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us200063he. Unique identifier: us200063he. The epicenter was at a depth of 25.11 km (16 miles).

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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 249 km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	144.528° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.3958° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	249km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-10 12:07:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-10 12:27:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	2.994	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us200063he	Id of event.
Event Code	200063he	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200063he,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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