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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Shizunai in Japan

Posted by admin on September 10, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.7603S, 142.9031WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Shizunai in Japan on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000aj8s. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000aj8s. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/09/17 / 2017-09-10 08:44:24 / September 10, 2017 @ 8:44 am. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:44:24 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.87 km (27 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 142.9031 East, latitude 41.7603 North, depth = 42.87 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shizunai-furukawachō (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 77 km SE of Shizunai, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.9031° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.7603° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km SE of Shizunai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-10 08:44:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-10 09:07:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.8 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 450 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 0.317 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000aj8s Id of event.
Event Code 2000aj8s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aj8s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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