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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Iwaki in Japan

Posted by admin on December 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.1999S, 141.2239WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Iwaki in Japan. The temblor was detected at 06:43:07 / 6:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 21:43:07 / November 21, 2016 @ 9:43 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007ds3. Unique identifier: us10007ds3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.2239 East, latitude 37.1999 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Inawashiro, Iwanuma, Shiroishi (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-three, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 34 km ENE of Iwaki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.2239° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km ENE of Iwaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-21 21:43:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-07 00:48:41 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 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 0.751 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us10007ds3 Id of event.
Event Code 10007ds3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ds3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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