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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Hirara in Japan

Posted by admin on December 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 25.0502S, 125.7062WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Hirara in Japan on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 11:18:11 / 11:18 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20007z2b. Event ids that are associated: us20007z2b. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.7062 East, latitude 25.0502 North, depth = 48.46 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.46 km (30 miles). Global time and date of event 08/12/16 / 2016-12-08 03:18:11 / December 8, 2016 @ 3:18 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (31 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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. 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: 50 km ENE of Hirara, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.7062° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.0502° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km ENE 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 2016-12-08 03:18:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-08 03:30:41 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 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 2.517 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us20007z2b Id of event.
Event Code 20007z2b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007z2b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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