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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Koshigaya in Japan


Earthquake location 35.8886S, 139.7504WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Koshigaya in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 77.99 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 19:12:27 / 7:12 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/09/16 / 2016-09-13 10:12:27 / September 13, 2016 @ 10:12 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us10006p8f. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006p8f. Exact location of event, longitude 139.7504 East, latitude 35.8886 North, depth = 77.99 km.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fujikawaguchiko, Isawa, Numata (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-one 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 3 km W of Koshigaya, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.7504° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8886° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km W of Koshigaya, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-13 10:12:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-13 10:31:39 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 416 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 0.493 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 111 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 us10006p8f Id of event.
Event Code 10006p8f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006p8f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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