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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Makurazaki in Japan

Posted by admin on October 15, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.9348S, 130.2712WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Makurazaki in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/10/17 / 2017-10-14 23:34:09 / October 14, 2017 @ 11:34 pm. The temblor was reported at 08:34:09 / 8:34 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 147.84 km (92 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ascl. Id of event: us1000ascl. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 130.2712 East, latitude 30.9348 North, depth = 147.84 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Kagoshima-shi (c. 555 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Satsumasendai (c. 73 100 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Hamanoichi (c. 39 500 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Ibusuki (c. 29 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kushikino (c. 25 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kokubu-matsuki, Shibushi, Satsumasendai. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 37 km S of Makurazaki, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.2712° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.9348° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 147.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km S of Makurazaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-14 23:34:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-14 23:54:03 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 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 0.593 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us1000ascl Id of event.
Event Code 1000ascl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ascl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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