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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 5 km SSE of Funaishikawa, Japan

Posted by admin on May 16, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4232S, 140.5874WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Funaishikawa in Japan. The epicenter was at a depth of 54.976 km (34 miles). Exact location, longitude 140.5874° East, latitude 36.4232° North, depth = 54.976 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 11:40:07 / April 24, 2024 @ 11:40 am. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:40:07 / 11:40 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mtg4. Id of event: us6000mtg4.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 101 km (63 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 468 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gyōda, Shimotoda, Yono.

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

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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 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: 5 km SSE of Funaishikawa, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.5874° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4232° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.976 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km SSE of Funaishikawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-24 11:40:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-09 08:23:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 37 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 415 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 141 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.92 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us6000mtg4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mtg4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mtg4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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