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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Chichi-shima in Japan

Posted by admin on September 1, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 27.849S, 140.0149WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 233 km WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan (145 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 458 km (285 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 458 km, 140.0149° East, 27.849° North. Unique identifier: at00pedvnp. Ids that are associated to the event: at00pedvnp. The temblor was reported at 00:43:01 / 12:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/09/18 / 2018-09-01 15:43:01 / September 1, 2018 @ 3:43 pm UTC/GMT.

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 233 km WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.0149° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.849° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 458 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 233km WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-01 15:43:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-01 15:51:10 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 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 AUTOMATIC 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 518 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.065227 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147.599988192 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00pedvnp Id of event.
Event Code 00pedvnp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pedvnp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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