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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 34 km E of Iwaki, Japan


Earthquake location 37.017S, 141.2744WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (mg/mb) has occurred on Friday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Iwaki in Japan. The temblor was reported at 12:30:34 / 12:30 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 40.43 km (25 miles). Global time of event 15/05/15 / 2015-05-15 03:30:34 / May 15, 2015 @ 3:30 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 141.2744 East, latitude 37.017 North, depth 40.43 km, unique identifier, us10002964. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us10002964,.

Close countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mito-shi, Ōarai, Nihommatsu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.2744° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.017° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km E of Iwaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-15 03:30:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-15 03:54:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 407 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 0.933 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us10002964 Id of event.
Event Code 10002964 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002964, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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