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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Nemuro in Japan

Posted by admin on November 4, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.3236S, 146.1256WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Nemuro in Japan on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 87.76 km (55 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/11/15 / 2015-11-04 13:47:49 / November 4, 2015 @ 1:47 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 146.1256 East, latitude 43.3236 North, depth = 87.76 km. The temblor was detected at 23:47:49 / 11:47 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us200041x2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200041x2.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shibetsu, Yuzhno-Kuril’sk, Nemuro (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 44 km E of Nemuro, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.1256° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.3236° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km E of Nemuro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-04 13:47:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-04 14:07:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 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 2.55 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us200041x2 Id of event.
Event Code 200041x2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200041x2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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