Moderate earthquake 5.6 mag, Izu Islands, Japan region

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, Izu Islands, Japan region (0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ntz9. Unique identifier: us6000ntz9. Exact location of event, longitude 140.0638 East, latitude 31.5463 North, depth = 11.71 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.71 km (7 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:14:19 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/09/24 / 2024-09-23 23:14:19 / September 23, 2024 @ 11:14 pm.

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: Izu Islands, Japan region.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.0638° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.5463° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.71 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Izu 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	2024-09-23 23:14:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-23 23:32:11	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	482	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	110	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.579	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us6000ntz9	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ntz9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ntz9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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