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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Kitaibaraki in Japan

Posted by admin on August 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6597S, 141.1909WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Kitaibaraki in Japan on Friday. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:07:42 / 9:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.1909 East, latitude 36.6597 North, depth = 36.52 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/16 / 2016-08-19 12:07:42 / August 19, 2016 @ 12:07 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10006f0e. Event ids that are associated: us10006f0e. The epicenter was at a depth of 36.52 km (23 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Katori-shi (c. 83 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ujiie, Kōriyama, Mooka.

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 five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 41 km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.1909° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6597° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-19 12:07:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-19 12:28:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 24 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 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 445 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 0.913 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us10006f0e Id of event.
Event Code 10006f0e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006f0e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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