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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Tomakomai in Japan


Earthquake location 42.6183S, 141.9171WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Tomakomai in Japan on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us2000h8uh. Event ids that are associated: us2000h8uh. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/09/18 / 2018-09-05 18:20:11 / September 5, 2018 @ 6:20 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 141.9171° East, 42.6183° North, depth 37.02 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.02 km (23 miles). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:20:11 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Sapporo (c. 1 883 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Tomakomai (c. 174 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Otaru (c. 143 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Ebetsu (c. 134 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Muroran (c. 96 200 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Chitose (c. 92 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Iwamizawa (c. 85 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Akabira, Takikawa, Ashibetsu. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 25 km E of Tomakomai, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.9171° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6183° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km E of Tomakomai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-05 18:20:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-05 18:40:38 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 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 432 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 1.935 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us2000h8uh Id of event.
Event Code 2000h8uh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h8uh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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