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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Volcano Islands, Japan region

Posted by admin on May 16, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 22.7642S, 143.3124WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, Volcano Islands, Japan region (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 09:29:11 / 9:29 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62 km (39 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/04/24 / 2024-04-18 09:29:11 / April 18, 2024 @ 9:29 am. Exact location of event, longitude 143.3124 East, latitude 22.7642 North, depth = 62 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mcul. Id of event: us7000mcul. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.3124° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.7642° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62 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 2024-04-18 09:29:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-14 05:40:22 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 0 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 449 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 127 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.432 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us7000mcul Id of event.
Event Code 7000mcul An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mcul, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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