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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Yonakuni in Japan

Posted by admin on June 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.811S, 123.2168WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 44 km NNE of Yonakuni, Japan (27 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.2168 East, latitude 24.811 North, depth = 24.14 km. 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 24.14 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/06/20 / 2020-06-18 16:42:16 / June 18, 2020 @ 4:42 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 16:42:16 / 4:42 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000aeb3. Id of event: us6000aeb3.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km NNE of Yonakuni, 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 123.2168° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.811° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44 km NNE of Yonakuni, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-18 16:42:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-18 17:05:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.39 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us6000aeb3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000aeb3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000aeb3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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