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Strong earthquake, 6.6 mag was detected near Kurayoshi in Japan

Posted by admin on October 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.3529S, 133.8208WA earthquake with magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Kurayoshi in Japan on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/10/16 / 2016-10-21 05:07:23 / October 21, 2016 @ 5:07 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kurayoshi in Japan (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 133.8208° East, latitude 35.3529° North, depth = 6.35 km. Id of earthquake: us20007fta. Event ids that are associated: at00ofdswb, us20007fta. The temblor was reported at 14:07:23 / 2:07 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 6.35 km (4 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Okayama-shi (c. 639 700 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Himeji (c. 481 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kurashiki (c. 437 600 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Fukuyama (c. 383 300 pop), 114 km (71 miles) from Takamatsu-shi (c. 334 200 pop), 133 km (82 miles) from Akashi (c. 297 300 pop), 112 km (70 miles) from Kakogawachō-honmachi (c. 271 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Matsue-shi (c. 156 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Tottori (c. 154 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Akashi, Innoshima, Sasayama. Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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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: 8 km S of Kurayoshi, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 133.8208° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3529° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km S of Kurayoshi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-21 05:07:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-21 05:27:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 34 The total number of felt reports
CDI 7.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 7.62 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 1 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 696 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 ,at,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 0.677 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 23 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 us20007fta Id of event.
Event Code 20007fta An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ofdswb,us20007fta, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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