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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, Izu Islands, Japan region


Earthquake location 30.7885S, 141.7452WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, Izu Islands, Japan region (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.24 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/12/19 / 2019-12-10 17:29:01 / December 10, 2019 @ 5:29 pm. The temblor was detected at 02:29:01 / 2:29 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006ptx. Id of event: us60006ptx. Exact location of event, depth 12.24 km, 141.7452° East, 30.7885° North.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Izu Islands, Japan region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7452° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.7885° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Izu Islands, Japan region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-10 17:29:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-10 17:46:23 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 416 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 2.842 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us60006ptx Id of event.
Event Code 60006ptx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006ptx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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