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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Izu Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 30.4489S, 138.6344WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, Izu Islands, Japan region (0 miles). Unique identifier: us2000kans. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000kans. Exact location of event, depth 388.95 km, 138.6344° East, 30.4489° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/04/19 / 2019-04-05 09:56:53 / April 5, 2019 @ 9:56 am. The temblor was picked up at 18:56:53 / 6:56 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 388.95 km (242 miles). 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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. 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: Izu Islands, Japan region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.6344° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.4489° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 388.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Izu Islands, Japan region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-05 09:56:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-05 10:19:32 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 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 2.841 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us2000kans Id of event.
Event Code 2000kans An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000kans, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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