Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Shizunai in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 65.04 km (40 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/09/16 / 2016-09-26 02:24:38 / September 26, 2016 @ 2:24 am. Unique identifier: us10006sn0. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006sn0. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.2176 East, latitude 41.8926 North, depth = 65.04 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:24:38 / 11:24 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Tomakomai (c. 174 800 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Shiraoi (c. 20 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shiraoi, Tomakomai, Shizunai-furukawachō (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 50 km SSW of Shizunai, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.2176° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.8926° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	50km SSW of Shizunai, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-26 02:24:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-26 02:45:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	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	385	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	0.711	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	76	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	us10006sn0	Id of event.
Event Code	10006sn0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006sn0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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