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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Naze in Japan


Earthquake location 28.3272S, 130.3991WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Naze in Japan on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 16/06/16 / 2016-06-16 21:42:01 / June 16, 2016 @ 9:42 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 06:42:01 / 6:42 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us200064xe. Unique identifier: us200064xe. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.89 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 23.89 km, 130.3991° East, 28.3272° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naze.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 89 km E of Naze, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.3991° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.3272° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km E of Naze, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-16 21:42:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-16 22:03:59 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 400 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 2.401 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us200064xe Id of event.
Event Code 200064xe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200064xe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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