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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag was detected near Izu Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 30.6946S, 141.7419WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, Izu Islands, Japan region (0 miles). Exact location of event, depth 15.14 km, 141.7419° East, 30.6946° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/12/19 / 2019-12-10 17:05:02 / December 10, 2019 @ 5:05 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.14 km (9 miles). Event id: us60006ptp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006ptp. The temblor was detected at 02:05:02 / 2:05 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Izu Islands, Japan region. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7419° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.6946° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Izu Islands, Japan region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-10 17:05:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-10 17:28:23 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 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 536 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 2.917 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us60006ptp Id of event.
Event Code 60006ptp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006ptp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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