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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Ishigaki in Japan


Earthquake location 24.3225S, 124.8023WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Ishigaki in Japan. The temblor was detected at 07:44:51 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.19 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 34.19 km, 124.8023° East, 24.3225° North. Event id: us700057r2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700057r2. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/08/19 / 2019-08-23 23:44:51 / August 23, 2019 @ 11:44 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (41 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hirara, Ishigaki (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 65 km E of Ishigaki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.8023° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.3225° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km E of Ishigaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-23 23:44:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-24 00:04:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 385 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 1.639 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us700057r2 Id of event.
Event Code 700057r2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700057r2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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