Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Naze in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 163 km SSE of Naze, Japan (101 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/06/16 / 2016-06-13 04:21:43 / June 13, 2016 @ 4:21 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 130.2184° East, latitude 27.0393° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000641d. Id of event: us2000641d. The temblor was picked up at 13:21:43 / 1:21 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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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. 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: 163 km SSE of Naze, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.2184° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	27.0393° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	163km SSE of Naze, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-13 04:21:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-13 04:45:59	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	3.37	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	500	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	1.748	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	26	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	us2000641d	Id of event.
Event Code	2000641d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000641d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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