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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Iwo Jima in Japan


Earthquake location 23.4759S, 142.8199WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 209 km SE of Iwo Jima, Japan (130 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.78 km (30 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 142.8199 East, latitude 23.4759 North, depth = 48.78 km. Unique identifier: us70003u7m. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003u7m. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/06/19 / 2019-06-01 20:13:57 / June 1, 2019 @ 8:13 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:13:57 / 6:13 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 209 km SE of Iwo Jima, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.8199° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.4759° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 209km SE 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 2019-06-01 20:13:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-01 20:30:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 3.649 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us70003u7m Id of event.
Event Code 70003u7m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003u7m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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