Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Hachinohe in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 157 km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan (98 miles). Exact location of event, depth 16.9 km, 143.2746° East, 40.9401° North. The temblor was detected at 17:16:54 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). 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 16.9 km (11 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/11/20 / 2020-11-06 17:16:54 / November 6, 2020 @ 5:16 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cbfp. Id of event: us7000cbfp.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 157 km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.2746° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.9401° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	157 km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-11-06 17:16:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-06 17:36:47	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	1.077	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	us7000cbfp	Id of event.
Event Code	7000cbfp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000cbfp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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