Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Iwaki in Japan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 141 km E of Iwaki, Japan (88 miles) on Monday. The temblor was reported at 02:24:15 / 2:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 142.4464 East, latitude 36.8017 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/03/19 / 2019-03-10 17:24:15 / March 10, 2019 @ 5:24 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jd8n. Unique identifier: us1000jd8n. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-three 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 141 km E of Iwaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.4464° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8017° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	141km E of Iwaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-03-10 17:24:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-10 17:42:30	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	400	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	1.696	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	156	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	us1000jd8n	Id of event.
Event Code	1000jd8n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000jd8n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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