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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Hirara in Japan

Posted by admin on October 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 25.6697S, 125.0894WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 98 kilometers (61 miles) from Hirara in Japan on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/10/16 / 2016-10-28 21:57:35 / October 28, 2016 @ 9:57 pm. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:57:35 / 5:57 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.0894 East, latitude 25.6697 North, depth = 14.03 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.03 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100072up. Id of event: us100072up.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hirara (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 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 one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 98 km NNW of Hirara, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.0894° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.6697° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km NNW of Hirara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-28 21:57:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-28 22:26:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 400 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 2.232 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us100072up Id of event.
Event Code 100072up An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100072up, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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