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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Yonakuni in Japan

Posted by admin on November 30, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.8401S, 123.3914WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us7000nv3k. Event ids that are associated: us7000nv3k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 09:07:02 / 9:07 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/11/24 / 2024-11-30 09:07:02 / November 30, 2024 @ 9:07 am. Exact location, longitude 123.3914° East, latitude 23.8401° North, depth = 23.58 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 23.58 km (15 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ishigaki (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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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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. 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: 79 km SSE of Yonakuni, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.3914° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.8401° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79 km SSE of Yonakuni, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-30 09:07:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-30 09:20:31 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 416 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.714 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us7000nv3k Id of event.
Event Code 7000nv3k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nv3k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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