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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag strikes near Ishinomaki in Japan

Posted by admin on October 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.2868S, 141.7858WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:36:09 / 3:36 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hh6r. Id of event: us1000hh6r. 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 43.74 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/10/18 / 2018-10-25 18:36:09 / October 25, 2018 @ 6:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 141.7858° East, latitude 38.2868° North, depth = 43.74 km.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 110 km (68 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 110 km (69 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yanagawamachi-saiwaichō, Namie, Kamaishi.

Every 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 six and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7858° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2868° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km ESE 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 2018-10-25 18:36:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-25 18:58:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.21 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 504 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 0.889 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us1000hh6r Id of event.
Event Code 1000hh6r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hh6r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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