Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Moderate World Earthquakes Magnitude 5–5.9

Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Naze in Japan


Earthquake location 28.4676S, 130.0926WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Naze in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000adb8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000adb8. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/08/17 / 2017-08-30 22:09:00 / August 30, 2017 @ 10:09 pm. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:09:00 / 7:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 9.35 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 130.0926° East, latitude 28.4676° North, depth = 9.35 km.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 61 km (38 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naze.

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 fifteen 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

Did you feel it?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 60 km E of Naze, Japan.

Copyright © 2017 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.0926° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.4676° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km E of Naze, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-30 22:09:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-30 22:26:34 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 416 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 2.29 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us2000adb8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000adb8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000adb8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply