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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 22 km ENE of Nanae, Japan


Earthquake location 41.952S, 140.9447WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Nanae in Japan on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/06/16 / 2016-06-16 05:21:29 / June 16, 2016 @ 5:21 am. Exact location, longitude 140.9447° East, latitude 41.952° North, depth = 16.6 km. Unique identifier: us200064qf. Ids that are associated to the event: us200064qf. The temblor was reported at 14:21:29 / 2:21 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.6 km (10 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tomakomai, Mutsu, Shiraoi (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Hakodate (c. 275 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tomakomai (c. 174 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Muroran (c. 96 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Kamiiso (c. 38 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Date (c. 35 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Nanae (c. 30 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen 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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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: 22 km ENE of Nanae, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.9447° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.952° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km ENE of Nanae, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-16 05:21:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-16 05:41:33 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 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 416 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 0.964 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us200064qf Id of event.
Event Code 200064qf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200064qf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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