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Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near Iwo Jima in Japan

Posted by admin on March 11, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 25.6411S, 141.5258WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 96 km NNE of Iwo Jima, Japan (60 miles) on Monday. Id of earthquake: us1000jdig. Event ids that are associated: us1000jdig. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.89 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 19.89 km, 141.5258° East, 25.6411° North. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:33:48 / 6:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/03/19 / 2019-03-11 09:33:48 / March 11, 2019 @ 9:33 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 96 km NNE of Iwo Jima, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.5258° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.6411° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km NNE of Iwo Jima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-11 09:33:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-11 09:54:49 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 0 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 449 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 1.564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us1000jdig Id of event.
Event Code 1000jdig An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jdig, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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