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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 107 km ESE of Hirara, Japan


Earthquake location 24.3272S, 126.2127WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 107 kilometers (66 miles) from Hirara in Japan on Saturday. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:26:31 / 1:26 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.41 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20009jb7. Unique identifier: us20009jb7. Exact location of event, longitude 126.2127 East, latitude 24.3272 North, depth = 31.41 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/06/17 / 2017-06-02 17:26:31 / June 2, 2017 @ 5:26 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 106 km (66 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 107 km ESE of Hirara, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.2127° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.3272° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 107km ESE of Hirara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-02 17:26:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-02 17:43:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 2.922 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us20009jb7 Id of event.
Event Code 20009jb7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009jb7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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