Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Takahagi in Japan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 107 kilometers (66 miles) from Takahagi in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70007juj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007juj. The temblor was reported at 20:19:56 / 8:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 141.8412° East, latitude 36.3667° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/02/20 / 2020-02-06 11:19:56 / February 6, 2020 @ 11:19 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kitaibaraki, Takahagi (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Takahagi (c. 33 600 pop).

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

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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. 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: 107 km ESE of Takahagi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.8412° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	107km ESE of Takahagi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-06 11:19:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-06 11:40:56	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	1	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	432	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	2.933	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	us70007juj	Id of event.
Event Code	70007juj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007juj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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