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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Kashima-shi in Japan

Posted by admin on January 14, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.0779S, 141.0741WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Kashima-shi in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/01/20 / 2020-01-14 04:25:49 / January 14, 2020 @ 4:25 am. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:25:49 / 1:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 141.0741° East, 36.0779° North. Unique identifier: us70006zhu. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006zhu.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iwai, Karasuyama, Kashiwa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 101 km (62 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-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.

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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. 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: 40 km ENE of Kashima-shi, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.0741° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0779° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km ENE of Kashima-shi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-14 04:25:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-14 04:51:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 401 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 2.359 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us70006zhu Id of event.
Event Code 70006zhu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006zhu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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