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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Hirara in Japan


Earthquake location 25.7252S, 125.1884WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 102 kilometers (63 miles) from Hirara in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10008qyg. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008qyg. Exact location of earthquake, 125.1884° East, 25.7252° North, depth 114.55 km. The temblor was reported at 03:15:49 / 3:15 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/05/17 / 2017-05-09 19:15:49 / May 9, 2017 @ 7:15 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 114.55 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 103 km (64 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 102 km N of Hirara, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1884° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.7252° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km N 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 2017-05-09 19:15:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-09 19:27:23 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 449 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 2.337 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us10008qyg Id of event.
Event Code 10008qyg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008qyg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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