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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Yonakuni in Japan


Earthquake location 23.6476S, 122.8596WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 91 km S of Yonakuni, Japan (57 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/06/24 / 2024-06-10 03:56:16 / June 10, 2024 @ 3:56 am. Exact location of event, depth 36.681 km, 122.8596° East, 23.6476° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 36.681 km (23 miles). The temblor was picked up at 03:56:16 / 3:56 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000mrf2. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mrf2.

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 91 km S of Yonakuni, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.8596° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.6476° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.681 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91 km S of Yonakuni, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-10 03:56:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-10 04:31:19 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.828 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 us7000mrf2 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mrf2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mrf2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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