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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Hiranai in Japan

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Hiranai in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 11.86 km, 140.9548° East, 41.0115° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/11/24 / 2024-11-16 12:22:17 / November 16, 2024 @ 12:22 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.86 km (7 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ns5p. Unique identifier: us7000ns5p. The temblor was detected at 12:22:17 / 12:22 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Takanosu, Nanae, Kamiiso (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Hakodate (c. 275 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Goshogawara (c. 49 100 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 10 km N of Hiranai, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.9548° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.0115° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km N of Hiranai, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-16 12:22:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-16 12:52:35	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	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	81	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.237	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us7000ns5p	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ns5p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ns5p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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