Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Nemuro in Japan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Nemuro in Japan on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000dzwr. Unique identifier: us2000dzwr. The epicenter was at a depth of 42.74 km (27 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 145.8313° East, 43.208° North, depth 42.74 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:00:00 / 4:00 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/04/18 / 2018-04-13 19:00:00 / April 13, 2018 @ 7:00 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yuzhno-Kuril’sk, Shibetsu, Nemuro.

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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km ESE of Nemuro, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.8313° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.208° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km ESE of Nemuro, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-13 19:00:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-13 19:23:30	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	2.306	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	58	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	us2000dzwr	Id of event.
Event Code	2000dzwr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000dzwr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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