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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Nemuro in Japan


Earthquake location 43.558S, 145.9487WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Nemuro in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 01:36:02 / January 28, 2020 @ 1:36 am. Exact location of earthquake, 145.9487° East, 43.558° North, depth 78.99 km. Unique identifier: us60007huu. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007huu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 78.99 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 11:36:02 / 11:36 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shibetsu, Yuzhno-Kuril’sk, Nemuro (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km NE of Nemuro, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.9487° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.558° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NE 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 2020-01-28 01:36:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-28 01:50:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 4.137 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 465 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 2.491 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us60007huu Id of event.
Event Code 60007huu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007huu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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