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Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 213 km W of Chichi-shima, Japan

Posted by admin on April 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 27.187S, 140.0669WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was reported 213 km W of Chichi-shima, Japan (132 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 467.68 km (291 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:24:17 / 6:24 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 18/04/20 / 2020-04-18 09:24:17 / April 18, 2020 @ 9:24 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us70008za4. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008za4. Exact location of earthquake, 140.0669° East, 27.187° North, depth 467.68 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 213 km W of Chichi-shima, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.0669° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.187° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 467.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 213km W of Chichi-shima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-18 09:24:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-18 09:40:23 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 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 500 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 1.889 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us70008za4 Id of event.
Event Code 70008za4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008za4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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