Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Iwanai in Japan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 192 km WSW of Iwanai, Japan (119 miles). Exact location, longitude 138.3071° East, latitude 42.3613° North, depth = 227.14 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/03/20 / 2020-03-17 15:10:32 / March 17, 2020 @ 3:10 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us60008h6c. Unique identifier: us60008h6c. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 227.14 km (141 miles). The temblor was picked up at 00:10:32 / 12:10 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 192 km WSW of Iwanai, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	138.3071° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.3613° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	227.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	192km WSW of Iwanai, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-17 15:10:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-17 15:27:39	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	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	2.366	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	us60008h6c	Id of event.
Event Code	60008h6c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60008h6c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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