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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Iwo Jima in Japan

Posted by admin on August 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.5211S, 143.4414WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 255 km ESE of Iwo Jima, Japan (158 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:44:47 / 8:44 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/08/18 / 2018-08-17 22:44:47 / August 17, 2018 @ 10:44 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 143.4414° East, 23.5211° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us1000gc01. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gc01.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 255 km ESE of Iwo Jima, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.4414° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.5211° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 255km ESE 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 2018-08-17 22:44:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-17 23:03:27 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 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 3.736 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us1000gc01 Id of event.
Event Code 1000gc01 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gc01, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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