Strong earthquake: M6 quake has struck near Miyako in Japan

A earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) strikes 170 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (106 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:58:04 / 1:58 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006ffg. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006ffg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/08/16 / 2016-08-20 15:58:04 / August 20, 2016 @ 3:58 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 143.7539° East, 40.2933° North, depth 10 km.

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 170 km ENE of Miyako, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.7539° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.2933° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	170km ENE of Miyako, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-20 15:58:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-20 16:13:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	554	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	2.108	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	141	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	us10006ffg	Id of event.
Event Code	10006ffg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006ffg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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