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

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 274 km ESE of Chichi-shima, Japan (170 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:54:13 / 8:54 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 05/01/19 / 2019-01-05 22:54:13 / January 5, 2019 @ 10:54 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000j0n0. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j0n0. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.32 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 144.5944 East, latitude 25.8411 North, depth = 8.32 km.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	144.5944° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	25.8411° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	274km ESE 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	2019-01-05 22:54:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-05 23:13:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	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	2.3	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	518	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	2.495	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	21	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	us2000j0n0	Id of event.
Event Code	2000j0n0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000j0n0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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