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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan


Earthquake location 40.637S, 143.7772WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes off the east coast of Honshu, Japan (0 miles) on Monday. Global time and date of event 22/04/19 / 2019-04-22 17:45:19 / April 22, 2019 @ 5:45 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us70003abu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003abu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 17:45:19 / 5:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 143.7772° East, latitude 40.637° North, depth = 10 km.

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 three and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: off the east coast of Honshu, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.7772° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.637° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place off the east coast of Honshu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-22 17:45:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-22 18:02:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 1.453 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us70003abu Id of event.
Event Code 70003abu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003abu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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