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Strong earthquake 6.1 mag, 144 km NE of Miyako, Japan

Posted by admin on April 11, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.4191S, 143.3042WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 144 km NE of Miyako, Japan (89 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.3042 East, latitude 40.4191 North, depth = 12.24 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.24 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 6.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:18:20 / 6:18 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/04/19 / 2019-04-11 08:18:20 / April 11, 2019 @ 8:18 am. Unique identifier: us700034d3. Ids that are associated to the event: us700034d3.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 144 km NE of Miyako, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.3042° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4191° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 144km NE of Miyako, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-11 08:18:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-11 08:41:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 573 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 1.598 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us700034d3 Id of event.
Event Code 700034d3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700034d3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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