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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Mutsu in Japan


Earthquake location 41.598S, 142.0694WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Mutsu in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 07/09/19 / 2019-09-07 09:35:50 / September 7, 2019 @ 9:35 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 142.0694° East, latitude 41.598° North, depth = 52.59 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005d5v. Unique identifier: us70005d5v. The temblor was picked up at 18:35:50 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 52.59 km (33 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shizunai-furukawachō, Mutsu (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 79 km ENE of Mutsu, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.0694° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.598° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km ENE of Mutsu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-07 09:35:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-07 09:53:37 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 0.913 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 116 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 us70005d5v Id of event.
Event Code 70005d5v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005d5v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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