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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 5 km W of Ishige, Japan


Earthquake location 36.1162S, 139.9021WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Ishige in Japan. Event id: us70006zbk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006zbk. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:53:48 / 4:53 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.15 km (25 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 40.15 km, 139.9021° East, 36.1162° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/01/20 / 2020-01-13 19:53:48 / January 13, 2020 @ 7:53 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hadano, Hiratsuka, Chigasaki (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km W of Ishige, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.9021° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1162° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km W of Ishige, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-13 19:53:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-13 20:13:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 13 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 391 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 0.26 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us70006zbk Id of event.
Event Code 70006zbk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006zbk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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