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Strong earthquake, 6 mag was detected near Hachijo-jima in Japan


Earthquake location 32.5357S, 141.4466WA earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 165 km ESE of Hachijo-jima, Japan (103 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000bkrv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bkrv. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/17 / 2017-11-09 07:42:12 / November 9, 2017 @ 7:42 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.34 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 141.4466° East, latitude 32.5357° North, depth = 20.34 km. The 6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:42:12 / 4:42 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. 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: 165 km ESE of Hachijo-jima, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.4466° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.5357° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 165km ESE of Hachijo-jima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-09 07:42:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-09 07:59:51 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 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 554 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 1.491 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us2000bkrv Id of event.
Event Code 2000bkrv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bkrv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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