Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 54 km ESE of Namie, Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (mg/mb) was reported Thursday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Namie in Japan. The temblor was reported at 08:06:05 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time of event 2014-12-24 11:06:05 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 141.5228 East, latitude 37.2244 North, depth 10 km.

Close countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 110 km (68 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fukushima-shi, Hobaramachi, Watari.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.5228° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2244° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54km ESE of Namie, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2014-12-24 23:06:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2014-12-24 23:26:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.12	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		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	467	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.868	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	94	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	usc000t9wt	Id of event.
Event Code	c000t9wt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	usc000t9wt	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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