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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Akkeshi in Japan


Earthquake location 42.8149S, 145.0395WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Akkeshi in Japan on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/09/24 / 2024-09-26 07:01:10 / September 26, 2024 @ 7:01 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 57.887 km (36 miles). Exact location, longitude 145.0395° East, latitude 42.8149° North, depth = 57.887 km. Unique identifier: us7000ngi1. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ngi1. The temblor was reported at 07:01:10 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shibetsu, Nemuro, Kushiro (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every 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.

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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: 28 km SSE of Akkeshi, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.0395° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.8149° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.887 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km SSE of Akkeshi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-26 07:01:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-26 07:16:17 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 465 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 133 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.607 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us7000ngi1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ngi1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ngi1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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