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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Asahi in Japan


Earthquake location 35.6484S, 140.7206WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Asahi in Japan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007lgs. Id of event: us60007lgs. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/01/20 / 2020-01-31 16:11:21 / January 31, 2020 @ 4:11 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 39.78 km (25 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.7206 East, latitude 35.6484 North, depth = 39.78 km. The temblor was reported at 01:11:21 / 1:11 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mooka, Tanashichō, Tateyama. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 9 km SE of Asahi, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.7206° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6484° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SE of Asahi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-31 16:11:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-31 17:07:02 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 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 2.193 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us60007lgs Id of event.
Event Code 60007lgs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007lgs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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