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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 61 km SE of Haebaru, Japan

Posted by admin on July 11, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 25.9565S, 128.3197WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Haebaru in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.57 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 128.3197° East, latitude 25.9565° North, depth = 13.57 km. Event id: us20002wtv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002wtv. The temblor was picked up at 03:39:44 / 3:39 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/07/15 / 2015-07-11 18:39:44 / July 11, 2015 @ 6:39 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nago, Ishikawa, Naha-shi. Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 61 km SE of Haebaru, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.3197° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.9565° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km SE of Haebaru, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-11 18:39:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-11 20:03:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 0.876 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us20002wtv Id of event.
Event Code 20002wtv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002wtv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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