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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Iwo Jima in Japan

Posted by admin on August 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.4754S, 143.4267WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 257 km SE of Iwo Jima, Japan (160 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 143.4267 East, latitude 23.4754 North, depth = 18.44 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:28:31 / 5:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/08/18 / 2018-08-18 07:28:31 / August 18, 2018 @ 7:28 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gc4t. Id of event: us1000gc4t. The epicenter was at a depth of 18.44 km (11 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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: 257 km SE of Iwo Jima, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.4267° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.4754° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 257km 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 2018-08-18 07:28:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-18 07:45:23 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 416 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 3.776 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 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 mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000gc4t Id of event.
Event Code 1000gc4t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gc4t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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