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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag strikes near Yonakuni in Japan

Posted by admin on June 23, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.6145S, 123.3857WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) strikes 102 kilometers (63 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: us200066bv. Unique identifier: us200066bv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 123.3857° East, 23.6145° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/06/16 / 2016-06-23 21:05:29 / June 23, 2016 @ 9:05 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 05:05:29 / 5:05 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishigaki.

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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 102 km SSE of Yonakuni, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.3857° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.6145° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km SSE of Yonakuni, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-23 21:05:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-23 21:26:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 4.15 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 536 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 0.915 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 19 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200066bv Id of event.
Event Code 200066bv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200066bv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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