Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag strikes near Iwaki in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 134 km E of Iwaki, Japan (83 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/03/19 / 2019-03-10 17:10:52 / March 10, 2019 @ 5:10 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000jd8k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jd8k. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.72 km (9 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 02:10:52 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.3682 East, latitude 36.8522 North, depth = 14.72 km.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 134 km E of Iwaki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.3682° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8522° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	134km 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 17:10:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-10 17:29:51	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	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	0	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	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	1.616	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	us1000jd8k	Id of event.
Event Code	1000jd8k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000jd8k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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