Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Iwaki in Japan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Iwaki in Japan. The temblor was reported at 02:53:20 / 2:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 141.3411 East, latitude 37.1333 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10007py4. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007py4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/01/17 / 2017-01-04 17:53:20 / January 4, 2017 @ 5:53 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōarai, Katsuta, Hitachi-Naka (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 110 km (68 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.3411° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.1333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km ENE of Iwaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-01-04 17:53:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-04 18:10:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	22	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.06	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	491	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	0.855	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us10007py4	Id of event.
Event Code	10007py4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007py4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

141.3411° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

37.1333° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

41km ENE of Iwaki, Japan

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2017-01-04 17:53:20

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-01-04 18:10:51

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

3.8

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

5.06

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

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

491

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.855

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.6 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us10007py4

Id of event.

Event Code

10007py4

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us10007py4,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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