Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag was detected near Yoichi in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Yoichi in Japan on Tuesday. The 5.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:39:42 / 2:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 139.9953° East, 43.7027° North, depth 211.45 km. Id of earthquake: us6000d7ml. Event ids that are associated: us6000d7ml. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 211.45 km (131 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/01/21 / 2021-01-12 02:39:42 / January 12, 2021 @ 2:39 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otaru, Iwanai, Yoichi. Event epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Otaru (c. 143 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Yoichi (c. 22 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Iwanai (c. 15 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 83 km NW of Yoichi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.9953° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.7027° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	211.45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	83 km NW of Yoichi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-01-12 02:39:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-12 02:58:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.678	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	537	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	1.922	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	24	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	us6000d7ml	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d7ml	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d7ml,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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