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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Chichi-shima in Japan


Earthquake location 27.0125S, 140.2013WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 200 km W of Chichi-shima, Japan (124 miles) on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 472.02 km (293 miles). Global time and date of event 05/02/18 / 2018-02-05 20:56:22 / February 5, 2018 @ 8:56 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 140.2013° East, 27.0125° North, depth 472.02 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cga3. Id of event: us1000cga3. The temblor was detected at 05:56:22 / 5:56 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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: 200 km W of Chichi-shima, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.2013° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.0125° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 472.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 200km W of Chichi-shima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-05 20:56:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-05 21:13:00 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 432 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 1.77 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us1000cga3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000cga3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cga3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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