Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Iwo Jima in Japan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 78 km NNE of Iwo Jima, Japan (48 miles) on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/11/17 / 2017-11-15 08:48:21 / November 15, 2017 @ 8:48 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bnts. Id of event: us2000bnts. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 28.4 km (18 miles). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:48:21 / 5:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.6085 East, latitude 25.4501 North, depth = 28.4 km.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 78 km NNE of Iwo Jima, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.6085° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	25.4501° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	78km NNE of Iwo 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	2017-11-15 08:48:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-15 09:07:33	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	416	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	1.718	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	124	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	us2000bnts	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bnts	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bnts,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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