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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Tateyama in Japan


Earthquake location 34.4958S, 140.3533WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Tateyama in Japan. Exact location, longitude 140.3533° East, latitude 34.4958° North, depth = 33.08 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 33.08 km (21 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 05:15:06 / 5:15 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/08/16 / 2016-08-13 20:15:06 / August 13, 2016 @ 8:15 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10006dmp. Event ids that are associated: us10006dmp.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kisarazu, Mobara, Futtsu (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Kisarazu (c. 122 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Mobara (c. 97 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Kimitsu (c. 92 100 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Futtsu (c. 51 700 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Miura (c. 51 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Tateyama (c. 50 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 29 100 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 four and in the last 365 days twelve 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 70 km SE of Tateyama, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.3533° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.4958° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km SE of Tateyama, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-13 20:15:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-13 21:02:33 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 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 1.448 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us10006dmp Id of event.
Event Code 10006dmp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006dmp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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