Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Izu Islands, Japan region

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, Izu Islands, Japan region (0 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 407.24 km (253 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000c7m7. Event ids that are associated: us6000c7m7. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:28:31 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/10/20 / 2020-10-12 00:28:31 / October 12, 2020 @ 12:28 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 407.24 km, 139.3747° East, 29.4508° North.

Every 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.3747° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.4508° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	407.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Izu 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	2020-10-12 00:28:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-12 00:52:54	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	400	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	5.308	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	32	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	us6000c7m7	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c7m7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c7m7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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