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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Nemuro in Japan

Posted by admin on April 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.3579S, 145.7435WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Nemuro in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:53:21 / 5:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 145.7435 East, latitude 43.3579 North, depth = 79.92 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/04/18 / 2018-04-24 08:53:21 / April 24, 2018 @ 8:53 am. Event id: us1000dr71. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dr71. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 79.92 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 14 km (9 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yuzhno-Kuril’sk, Shibetsu, Nemuro (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 four and in the last 365 days twenty 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 14 km ENE of Nemuro, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.7435° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.3579° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ENE 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 2018-04-24 08:53:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-24 09:37:27 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 4.21 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 465 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 2.331 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 49 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 us1000dr71 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dr71 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dr71, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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