Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Shizunai in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. The epicenter was at a depth of 65.45 km (41 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 142.5131 East, latitude 42.1242 North, depth = 65.45 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bk3e. Id of event: us1000bk3e. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:48:01 / 5:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/12/17 / 2017-12-01 20:48:01 / December 1, 2017 @ 8:48 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Obihiro, Chitose, Tomakomai. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Tomakomai (c. 174 800 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Obihiro (c. 173 900 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Chitose (c. 92 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop).

Each 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-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 26 km SSE of Shizunai, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.5131° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.1242° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65.45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km SSE 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	2017-12-01 20:48:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-01 21:07:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	401	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	0.491	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us1000bk3e	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bk3e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bk3e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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