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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 13 km SE of Ohara, Japan

Posted by admin on August 14, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.1768S, 140.4975WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Ohara in Japan. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/08/18 / 2018-08-14 03:35:49 / August 14, 2018 @ 3:35 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g8kh. Id of event: us1000g8kh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 12:35:49 / 12:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 140.4975° East, latitude 35.1768° North, depth = 47.84 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.84 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 468 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hiratsuka, Nishi-Tokyo-shi, Mitsukaidō. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 13 km SE of Ohara, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.4975° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1768° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SE of Ohara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-14 03:35:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-14 03:56:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 403 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 1.965 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us1000g8kh Id of event.
Event Code 1000g8kh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g8kh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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