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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Hasaki in Japan

Posted by admin on October 21, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.0176S, 142.4448WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 148 km ENE of Hasaki, Japan (92 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.4448 East, latitude 36.0176 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 00:50:54 / 12:50 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000av7z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000av7z. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/10/17 / 2017-10-21 15:50:54 / October 21, 2017 @ 3:50 pm.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 148 km ENE of Hasaki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.4448° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0176° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 148km ENE of Hasaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-21 15:50:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-21 16:09:33 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 385 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 2.274 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 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 us1000av7z Id of event.
Event Code 1000av7z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000av7z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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