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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Daigo in Japan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Daigo in Japan. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:50:49 / 3:50 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/08/24 / 2024-08-18 15:50:49 / August 18, 2024 @ 3:50 pm. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 140.4958° East, 36.7123° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Event id: us7000n7tb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n7tb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Narita, Kazo, Abiko (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Oyama (c. 159 900 pop).

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

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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: 14 km ESE of Daigo, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.4958° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7123° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km ESE of Daigo, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-18 15:50:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-18 16:16:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.851	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122	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	us7000n7tb	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n7tb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n7tb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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