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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 15 km S of Iwaki, Japan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Iwaki in Japan on Thursday. Exact location, longitude 140.9107° East, latitude 36.9153° North, depth = 54.74 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.74 km (34 miles). Event id: us10007pxb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007pxb. The temblor was picked up at 00:43:59 / 12:43 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 04/01/17 / 2017-01-04 15:43:59 / January 4, 2017 @ 3:43 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 99 km (62 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kashima-shi, Tsukuba, Shimodate (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 15 km S of Iwaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.9107° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9153° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km S 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	2017-01-04 15:43:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-04 16:13:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	27	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.3	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	446	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	0.956	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	33	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	us10007pxb	Id of event.
Event Code	10007pxb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007pxb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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