Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag was detected near Ozu in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Ozu in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 01:45:56 / 1:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/04/16 / 2016-04-15 16:45:56 / April 15, 2016 @ 4:45 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 130.8463 East, latitude 32.8805 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005ija. Unique identifier: us20005ija.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Akune, Sasebo, Ushibuka. The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Fukuoka-shi (c. 1 392 300 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Kitakyūshū (c. 997 500 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Kumamoto (c. 680 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ōita (c. 448 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Nagasaki-shi (c. 410 200 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Kurume (c. 238 200 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Sasebo (c. 237 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Saga-shi (c. 165 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 2 km NW of Ozu, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.8463° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.8805° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km NW of Ozu, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-15 16:45:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-15 17:21:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	6.91	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	501	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	2.675	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	us20005ija	Id of event.
Event Code	20005ija	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005ija,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

130.8463° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

32.8805° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

2km NW of Ozu, Japan

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2016-04-15 16:45:56

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-04-15 17:21:14

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

3.8

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

6.91

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

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

501

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

2.675

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.03 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20005ija

Id of event.

Event Code

20005ija

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20005ija,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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