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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Volcano Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 22.1354S, 144.2859WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes Volcano Islands, Japan region (0 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:38:47 / 4:38 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 84.66 km (53 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/09/20 / 2020-09-29 04:38:47 / September 29, 2020 @ 4:38 am. Exact location of earthquake, 144.2859° East, 22.1354° North, depth 84.66 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c2ew. Unique identifier: us6000c2ew.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Volcano Islands, Japan region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.2859° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.1354° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Volcano Islands, Japan region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-29 04:38:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-29 04:52:39 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 7.004 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us6000c2ew Id of event.
Event Code 6000c2ew An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c2ew, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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