Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Shizunai in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 134 km SE of Shizunai, Japan (83 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000bxat. Unique identifier: us1000bxat. The temblor was detected at 07:14:53 / 7:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 143.7074° East, 41.653° North, depth 34.75 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.75 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/12/17 / 2017-12-28 21:14:53 / December 28, 2017 @ 9:14 pm.

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. 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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 134 km SE of Shizunai, 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	143.7074° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.653° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	134km 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	2017-12-28 21:14:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-28 21:32:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	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	0.547	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.99 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	97	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	us1000bxat	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bxat	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bxat,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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