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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Ishinomaki in Japan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 50.95 km, 141.5681° East, 38.4845° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 50.95 km (32 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:21:48 / 1:21 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/09/18 / 2018-09-18 16:21:48 / September 18, 2018 @ 4:21 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000hgf5. Event ids that are associated: us2000hgf5.

The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Tendō (c. 65 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tendō, Obanazawa, Ōtsuchi.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-one 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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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: 24 km ENE of Ishinomaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.5681° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.4845° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km ENE of Ishinomaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-18 16:21:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-18 16:42:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	401	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	0.868	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us2000hgf5	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hgf5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hgf5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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