Strong earthquake 6 mag, 255 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan

A earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) strikes 255 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan (158 miles) on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000b1v8. Id of event: us2000b1v8. Global time and date of event 06/10/17 / 2017-10-06 07:59:33 / October 6, 2017 @ 7:59 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:59:33 / 5:59 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 143.9537 East, latitude 37.485 North, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 255 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.9537° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.485° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	255km ESE of Ishinomaki, 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 07:59:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-06 08:20:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	7	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.8	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	556	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	2.539	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	29	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	us2000b1v8	Id of event.
Event Code	2000b1v8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000b1v8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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