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Strong earthquake: M6.6 quake has struck near Chichi-shima in Japan

Posted by admin on April 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 27.1508S, 140.1479WA earthquake with magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) was reported 205 km W of Chichi-shima, Japan (127 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 458.5 km (285 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 140.1479 East, latitude 27.1508 North, depth = 458.5 km. The 6.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:25:37 / 5:25 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Chichi-shima in Japan (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/04/20 / 2020-04-18 08:25:37 / April 18, 2020 @ 8:25 am. All ids that are associated to the event: at00q8z62q, us70008z89, pt20109000. Unique identifier: us70008z89.

Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 205 km W of Chichi-shima, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.1479° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.1508° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 458.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 205km 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 08:25:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-18 08:42:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 0 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 1 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 670 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 ,at,us,pt, 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 1.816 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 21 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 us70008z89 Id of event.
Event Code 70008z89 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q8z62q,us70008z89,pt20109000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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