Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag strikes near Nago in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 167 km E of Nago, Japan (104 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.85 km (4 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 129.647 East, latitude 26.7398 North, depth = 5.85 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/09/18 / 2018-09-15 00:08:20 / September 15, 2018 @ 12:08 am. Event id: us2000hewm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hewm. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:08:20 / 9:08 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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: 167 km E of Nago, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	129.647° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	26.7398° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.85 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	167km E of Nago, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-15 00:08:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-15 00:44:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.33	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	484	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	1.232	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	24	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	us2000hewm	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hewm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hewm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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