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Moderate earthquake 5.8 mag, 38 km ESE of Shingū, Japan

Posted by admin on February 26, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.596S, 136.3684WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Shingū in Japan. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:53:24 / 5:53 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pvj5. Unique identifier: us6000pvj5. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/02/25 / 2025-02-26 05:53:24 / February 26, 2025 @ 5:53 am UTC/GMT. 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 394.464 km (245 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 136.3684 East, latitude 33.596 North, depth = 394.464 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tawaramoto, Gobō, Nabari. Epicenter of the earthquake was 115 km (71 miles) from Kashihara-shi (c. 124 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Ise (c. 97 300 pop), 116 km (72 miles) from Nabari (c. 88 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Tanabe (c. 69 600 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Sakurai (c. 63 000 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Hashimoto (c. 57 100 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Gojō (c. 34 300 pop), 112 km (69 miles) from Gose (c. 32 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 38 km ESE of Shingū, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.3684° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.596° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 394.464 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 km ESE of Shingū, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-26 05:53:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-26 06:13:13 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 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 518 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 1.833 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us6000pvj5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pvj5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pvj5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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