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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Nemuro in Japan


Earthquake location 43.6008S, 146.0262WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Nemuro in Japan on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 101.07 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us70006qjc. Event ids that are associated: us70006qjc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 00:36:54 / 12:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 146.0262 East, latitude 43.6008 North, depth = 101.07 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/12/19 / 2019-12-24 14:36:54 / December 24, 2019 @ 2:36 pm.

Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shibetsu, Yuzhno-Kuril’sk, Nemuro.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 47 km NE of Nemuro, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.0262° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.6008° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 101.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km NE of Nemuro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-24 14:36:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-24 15:33:48 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 385 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 2.536 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us70006qjc Id of event.
Event Code 70006qjc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006qjc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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