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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 28 km ENE of Iwaki, Japan


Earthquake location 37.0997S, 141.1969WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Iwaki in Japan on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:56:40 / 11:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 141.1969° East, latitude 37.0997° North, depth = 47.42 km. Id of earthquake: us2000b20f. Event ids that are associated: us2000b20f. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.42 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/10/17 / 2017-10-06 14:56:40 / October 6, 2017 @ 2:56 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 28 km (18 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Inawashiro, Watari, Mito-shi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-eight 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 28 km ENE of Iwaki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.1969° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0997° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km 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 2017-10-06 14:56:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-06 15:19:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 41 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.6 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 472 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 0.833 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000b20f Id of event.
Event Code 2000b20f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b20f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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