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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Kushiro in Japan

Posted by admin on February 8, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.3189S, 144.9525WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Kushiro in Japan on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.71 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 14:24:01 / 2:24 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/02/21 / 2021-02-08 14:24:01 / February 8, 2021 @ 2:24 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 144.9525 East, latitude 42.3189 North, depth = 41.71 km. Event id: us6000dfl9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dfl9.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kushiro (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 86 km SSE of Kushiro, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.9525° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.3189° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86 km SSE of Kushiro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-08 14:24:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-08 14:45:42 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 1.368 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us6000dfl9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dfl9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dfl9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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