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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Katsuura in Japan


Earthquake location 34.3873S, 141.798WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 160 km ESE of Katsuura, Japan (99 miles) on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, 141.798° East, 34.3873° North, depth 29.89 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/09/16 / 2016-09-22 15:57:08 / September 22, 2016 @ 3:57 pm. Event id: us10006rp5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006rp5. The temblor was picked up at 00:57:08 / 12:57 am (local time epicenter). 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 29.89 km (19 miles).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 160 km ESE of Katsuura, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.798° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.3873° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 160km ESE of Katsuura, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-22 15:57:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-22 16:33:38 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 432 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 2.083 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us10006rp5 Id of event.
Event Code 10006rp5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006rp5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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