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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Hachinohe in Japan


Earthquake location 40.6884S, 143.7548WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 192 km E of Hachinohe, Japan (119 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10006fkm. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006fkm. Exact location of event, depth 13.29 km, 143.7548° East, 40.6884° North. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:49:14 / 10:49 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 13.29 km (8 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/08/16 / 2016-08-21 12:49:14 / August 21, 2016 @ 12:49 pm.

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 192 km E of Hachinohe, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.7548° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.6884° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 192km E of Hachinohe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-21 12:49:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-21 13:08:43 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 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 401 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 1.399 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us10006fkm Id of event.
Event Code 10006fkm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006fkm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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