Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Namie in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Namie in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 141.58 East, latitude 37.5184 North, depth = 35.55 km. 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 35.55 km (22 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000dht8. Unique identifier: us6000dht8. The temblor was detected at 12:26:04 / 12:26 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/02/21 / 2021-02-15 12:26:04 / February 15, 2021 @ 12:26 pm.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 104 km (65 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sukagawa, Ishikawa, Kōriyama (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.58° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.5184° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51 km E of Namie, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-02-15 12:26:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-15 12:46:12	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	432	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	1.7	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	us6000dht8	Id of event.
Event Code	6000dht8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000dht8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.3 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

141.58° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

37.5184° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

35.55 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

51 km E of Namie, Japan

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2021-02-15 12:26:04

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2021-02-15 12:46:12

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

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

432

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.7

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.67 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

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

us6000dht8

Id of event.

Event Code

6000dht8

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us6000dht8,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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