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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Ishinomaki in Japan


Earthquake location 38.4845S, 141.5681WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 50.95 km, 141.5681° East, 38.4845° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 50.95 km (32 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:21:48 / 1:21 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/09/18 / 2018-09-18 16:21:48 / September 18, 2018 @ 4:21 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000hgf5. Event ids that are associated: us2000hgf5.

The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Tendō (c. 65 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tendō, Obanazawa, Ōtsuchi.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 24 km ENE of Ishinomaki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.5681° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4845° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km ENE 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 2018-09-18 16:21:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-18 16:42:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 401 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 0.868 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us2000hgf5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000hgf5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hgf5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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