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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 92 km E of Nishinoomote, Japan

Posted by admin on January 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.5763S, 131.9503WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:41:37 / 5:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 8.09 km, 131.9503° East, 30.5763° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.09 km (5 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000cjrx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cjrx. Global time and date of event 15/01/18 / 2018-01-15 20:41:37 / January 15, 2018 @ 8:41 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nishinoomote (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 92 km E of Nishinoomote, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.9503° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.5763° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km E of Nishinoomote, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-15 20:41:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-15 20:58:10 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 2.7 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us2000cjrx Id of event.
Event Code 2000cjrx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cjrx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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