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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Takatsuki in Japan


Earthquake location 34.8336S, 135.6057WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Takatsuki in Japan. Global time and date of event 17/06/18 / 2018-06-17 22:58:35 / June 17, 2018 @ 10:58 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 07:58:35 / 7:58 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000eu1c. Event ids that are associated: us1000eu1c. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.35 km (10 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 135.6057 East, latitude 34.8336 North, depth = 15.35 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ōgaki, Ise, Tsushima. The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ōsaka-shi (c. 2 592 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Kobe (c. 1 528 500 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Kyoto (c. 1 459 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Sakai (c. 782 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Himeji (c. 481 500 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Nishinomiya-hama (c. 468 900 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Amagasaki (c. 442 200 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km SSW of Takatsuki, 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 135.6057° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.8336° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SSW of Takatsuki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-17 22:58:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-17 23:12:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 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 435 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 1.275 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 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 us1000eu1c Id of event.
Event Code 1000eu1c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eu1c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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