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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Isehara in Japan


Earthquake location 35.4028S, 139.3395WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Isehara in Japan on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/08/24 / 2024-08-09 10:57:37 / August 9, 2024 @ 10:57 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 18.542 km, 139.3395° East, 35.4028° North. The temblor was detected at 10:57:37 / 10:57 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000nj24. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nj24. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.542 km (12 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ami, Ashikaga, Sano (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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: 2 km E of Isehara, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.3395° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.4028° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.542 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km E of Isehara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-09 10:57:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-09 11:17:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 402 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 86 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.466 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us6000nj24 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nj24 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nj24, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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