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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 253 km NNW of Chichi-shima, Japan


Earthquake location 29.1369S, 141.0824WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 253 km NNW of Chichi-shima, Japan (157 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 141.0824 East, latitude 29.1369 North, depth = 79.35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/10/18 / 2018-10-17 13:29:08 / October 17, 2018 @ 1:29 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 22:29:08 / 10:29 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.35 km (49 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hdbn. Id of event: us1000hdbn.

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 two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 253 km NNW of Chichi-shima, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.0824° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.1369° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 253km NNW of Chichi-shima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-17 13:29:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-17 13:45:43 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 400 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 2.254 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us1000hdbn Id of event.
Event Code 1000hdbn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hdbn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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