Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Miyako in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Miyako in Japan. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/10/18 / 2018-10-27 11:39:13 / October 27, 2018 @ 11:39 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000hhyk. Event ids that are associated: us1000hhyk. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.4098 East, latitude 40.1429 North, depth = 50.28 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:39:13 / 8:39 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.28 km (31 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Ichinohe (c. 15 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ōtsuchi, Ichinohe, Hachinohe.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 68 km NE of Miyako, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.4098° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.1429° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68km NE of Miyako, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-27 11:39:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-27 12:10:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	385	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	1.212	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 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	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000hhyk	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hhyk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hhyk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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