Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Nemuro in Japan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Nemuro in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/01/20 / 2020-01-15 11:31:35 / January 15, 2020 @ 11:31 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 20:31:35 / 8:31 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 90.11 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.2254 East, latitude 42.9319 North, depth = 90.11 km. Unique identifier: us70007077. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007077.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shibetsu, Kushiro, Nemuro. The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 51 km SSW of Nemuro, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.2254° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.9319° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	90.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51km SSW of Nemuro, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-15 11:31:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-15 11:48:27	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	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	1.783	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us70007077	Id of event.
Event Code	70007077	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007077,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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