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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Hachijo-jima in Japan


Earthquake location 32.1354S, 140.8998WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 147 km SE of Hachijo-jima, Japan (91 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/11/15 / 2015-11-05 08:23:05 / November 5, 2015 @ 8:23 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003uuj. Unique identifier: us10003uuj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65.43 km (41 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.8998 East, latitude 32.1354 North, depth = 65.43 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 17:23:05 / 5:23 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 147 km SE of Hachijo-jima, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.8998° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.1354° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 147km SE of Hachijo-jima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-05 08:23:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-05 08:42:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 432 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 1.339 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us10003uuj Id of event.
Event Code 10003uuj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003uuj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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