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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Miyako in Japan


Earthquake location 40.1083S, 142.6537WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Miyako in Japan on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 40.16 km (25 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/18 / 2018-05-14 10:31:19 / May 14, 2018 @ 10:31 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000e4md. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000e4md. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:31:19 / 8:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 40.16 km, 142.6537° East, 40.1083° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yamada, Miyako (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 79 km NE of Miyako, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.6537° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.1083° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km NE of Miyako, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-14 10:31:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-14 10:48:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 1.39 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us1000e4md Id of event.
Event Code 1000e4md An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e4md, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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