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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Takanabe in Japan


Earthquake location 32.2031S, 132.1102WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Takanabe in Japan on Wednesday. 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 39.26 km (24 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/03/19 / 2019-03-27 06:38:06 / March 27, 2019 @ 6:38 am. Exact location of event, longitude 132.1102 East, latitude 32.2031 North, depth = 39.26 km. Event id: us1000jm9y. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jm9y. The temblor was detected at 15:38:06 / 3:38 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kobayashi, Takedamachi, Usuki (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Miyazaki-shi (c. 311 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Nobeoka (c. 121 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Saiki (c. 49 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Nichinan (c. 44 200 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Kobayashi (c. 39 700 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Usuki (c. 35 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Tsuma (c. 34 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven 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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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: 58 km E of Takanabe, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 132.1102° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.2031° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km E of Takanabe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-27 06:38:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-27 07:04:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 432 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 1.388 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us1000jm9y Id of event.
Event Code 1000jm9y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jm9y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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