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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 39 km ESE of Nishinoomote, Japan


Earthquake location 30.6164S, 131.3926WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (mg/mb) was reported Tuesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan. The temblor was reported at 02:26:59 / 2:26 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 45.03 km (28 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-13 05:26:59 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 131.3926 East, latitude 30.6164 North, depth 45.03 km.

Close countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Kanoya (c. 82 300 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Ibusuki (c. 29 700 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Kushima (c. 22 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Shibushi (c. 18 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kanoya, Ibusuki, Shibushi.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.3926° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.6164° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km ESE of Nishinoomote, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-01-13 05:26:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-01-13 05:39:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.201 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 usc000tf3a Id of event.
Event Code c000tf3a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS usc000tf3a A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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