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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Miyazaki-shi in Japan

Posted by admin on May 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.7567S, 131.6023WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Miyazaki-shi in Japan. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:07:38 / 9:07 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location, longitude 131.6023° East, latitude 31.7567° North, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: us70003j4s. Event ids that are associated: us70003j4s. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/05/19 / 2019-05-10 00:07:38 / May 10, 2019 @ 12:07 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kagoshima-shi, Ōkuchi, Hitoyoshi (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Kagoshima-shi (c. 555 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Miyakonojō (c. 131 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kokubu-matsuki (c. 57 900 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 24 km SE of Miyazaki-shi, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.6023° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.7567° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SE of Miyazaki-shi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-10 00:07:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-10 00:34:58 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 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 400 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 1.495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70003j4s Id of event.
Event Code 70003j4s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003j4s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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