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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Nago in Japan

Posted by admin on July 25, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 26.483S, 128.7272WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Nago in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.46 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 00:11:54 / 12:11 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20006hg4. Unique identifier: us20006hg4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 128.7272° East, latitude 26.483° North, depth = 20.46 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/07/16 / 2016-07-25 15:11:54 / July 25, 2016 @ 3:11 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Katsuren-haebaru (c. 34 200 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Chatan (c. 27 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tomigusuku, Naha-shi, Ginowan (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 75 km E of Nago, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.7272° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.483° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km E of Nago, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-25 15:11:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-25 15:35:41 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 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.68 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 467 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 0.537 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us20006hg4 Id of event.
Event Code 20006hg4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006hg4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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