Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag has occurred near Koshima in Japan

A earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) strikes 151 km SSE of Koshima, Japan (94 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 131.3485° East, 29.0709° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/11/24 / 2024-11-17 12:16:30 / November 17, 2024 @ 12:16 pm UTC/GMT. The 6.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:16:30 / 12:16 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nsa3. Unique identifier: us7000nsa3. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 135 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 151 km SSE of Koshima, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	131.3485° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.0709° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	151 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	2024-11-17 12:16:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-17 12:39:11	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	2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.855	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	592	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	118	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.551	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	32	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	us7000nsa3	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nsa3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nsa3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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