Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Koshima in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Koshima in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.953 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000ndp6. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ndp6. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:03:41 / 11:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/09/24 / 2024-09-13 23:03:41 / September 13, 2024 @ 11:03 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 130.8548° East, 29.7999° North, depth 28.953 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nishinoomote (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 57 km SSE of Koshima, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.8548° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.7999° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.953 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57 km SSE of Koshima, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-13 23:03:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-13 23:26:45	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	4.057	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	500	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	166	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.739	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us7000ndp6	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ndp6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ndp6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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