Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near Iwo Jima in Japan

A earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was reported 263 km SE of Iwo Jima, Japan (163 miles) on Friday. Event id: us1000gaqf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gaqf. Exact location of event, longitude 143.393 East, latitude 23.3374 North, depth = 1.75 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/08/18 / 2018-08-16 18:21:29 / August 16, 2018 @ 6:21 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:21:29 / 4:21 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.75 km (1 miles).

Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 263 km SE of Iwo Jima, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.393° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.3374° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	263km SE of Iwo Jima, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-16 18:21:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-16 18:40:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	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	3.12	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	554	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	3.898	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	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	us1000gaqf	Id of event.
Event Code	1000gaqf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000gaqf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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