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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 2 km NNW of Hasuda, Japan


Earthquake location 35.9942S, 139.6415WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (mg/mb) has struck on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Hasuda in Japan. The temblor was reported at 14:28:07 / 2:28 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time of event 25/05/15 / 2015-05-25 05:28:07 / May 25, 2015 @ 5:28 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 139.6415 East, latitude 35.9942 North, depth 35 km, unique identifier, us10002bzr. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us10002bzr,.

Close countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kawaguchi, Yugawara, Saku.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.6415° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9942° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NNW of Hasuda, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-25 05:28:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-25 05:54:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 41 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 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 453 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 0.503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us10002bzr Id of event.
Event Code 10002bzr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002bzr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

1 Comment

  1. Derek

    I felt it in Yokosuka!

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