Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Hotaka in Japan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Hotaka in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us70009kd9. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009kd9. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/05/20 / 2020-05-19 04:13:00 / May 19, 2020 @ 4:13 am. Exact location, longitude 137.6936° East, latitude 36.2467° North, depth = 10 km. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:13:00 / 1:13 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Nagano-shi (c. 360 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Matsumoto (c. 210 700 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Kōfu-shi (c. 190 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ueda (c. 126 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nakanojōmachi, Katsuyama, Annaka. Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	137.6936° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2467° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km WSW of Hotaka, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-19 04:13:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-19 04:31:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	433	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	0.508	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us70009kd9	Id of event.
Event Code	70009kd9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009kd9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

137.6936° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

36.2467° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

19km WSW of Hotaka, Japan

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2020-05-19 04:13:00

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-05-19 04:31:12

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

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

433

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.508

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.98 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

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

us70009kd9

Id of event.

Event Code

70009kd9

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us70009kd9,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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