Strong earthquake: M6.2 quake has struck near Hachinohe in Japan

A earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Hachinohe in Japan. 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 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/12/20 / 2020-12-20 17:23:19 / December 20, 2020 @ 5:23 pm. Event id: us7000csqe. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000csqe. The temblor was picked up at 17:23:19 / 5:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 142.5396° East, latitude 40.8356° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mutsu, Misawa, Hachinohe (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 122 km (76 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 95 km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.5396° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.8356° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	95 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	2020-12-20 17:23:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-20 17:37:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.3	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	592	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	1.12	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	144	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	us7000csqe	Id of event.
Event Code	7000csqe	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000csqe,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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