Strong earthquake, 6 mag was detected near Nago in Japan

A earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was reported 113 kilometers (70 miles) from Nago in Japan on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/09/16 / 2016-09-26 05:19:58 / September 26, 2016 @ 5:19 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.5599 East, latitude 27.4708 North, depth = 40.25 km. Id of earthquake: us10006sp7. Event ids that are associated: us10006sp7. The epicenter was at a depth of 40.25 km (25 miles). The temblor was detected at 14:19:58 / 2:19 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nago (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 111 km (69 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 113 km NNE of Nago, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	128.5599° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	27.4708° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40.25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	113km NNE of Nago, 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 05:19:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-26 05:38:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	0.682	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	us10006sp7	Id of event.
Event Code	10006sp7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006sp7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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