Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Hasaki in Japan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Hasaki in Japan on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 12:12:31 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.8621 East, latitude 35.6288 North, depth = 41.06 km. Unique identifier: us1000e6yj. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000e6yj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/05/18 / 2018-05-17 03:12:31 / May 17, 2018 @ 3:12 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 41.06 km (26 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sakai, Shimodate, Shimotoda. Epicenter of the event was 106 km (66 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 468 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 six and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.8621° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6288° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km SSE of Hasaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-05-17 03:12:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-17 03:27:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	18	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	439	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	2.236	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	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	us1000e6yj	Id of event.
Event Code	1000e6yj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000e6yj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

140.8621° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

35.6288° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

41.06 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

11km SSE of Hasaki, Japan

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2018-05-17 03:12:31

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-05-17 03:27:18

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

3.8

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

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

439

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

2.236

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.14 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

117

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

us1000e6yj

Id of event.

Event Code

1000e6yj

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us1000e6yj,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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