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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Volcano Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 22.8862S, 143.8902WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes Volcano Islands, Japan region (0 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 07:22:50 / 7:22 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/01/21 / 2021-01-12 07:22:50 / January 12, 2021 @ 7:22 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000d21n. Unique identifier: us7000d21n. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.8902 East, latitude 22.8862 North, depth = 39.38 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.38 km (24 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: Volcano Islands, Japan region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.8902° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.8862° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Volcano 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 2021-01-12 07:22:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-08 08:40:35 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 385 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 4.467 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us7000d21n Id of event.
Event Code 7000d21n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d21n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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