Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Shizunai in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 60.8 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:11:48 / 5:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/01/18 / 2018-01-30 20:11:48 / January 30, 2018 @ 8:11 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000crgs. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000crgs. Exact location of event, depth 60.8 km, 142.5606° East, 42.0237° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tomakomai, Shizunai-furukawachō. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 104 km (65 miles) from Tomakomai (c. 174 800 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 37 km SSE of Shizunai, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.5606° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.0237° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	60.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km 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	2018-01-30 20:11:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-30 20:48:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	0.444	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us2000crgs	Id of event.
Event Code	2000crgs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000crgs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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