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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Haebaru in Japan

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Haebaru in Japan on Friday. The temblor was reported at 06:23:51 / 6:23 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/04/20 / 2020-04-16 21:23:51 / April 16, 2020 @ 9:23 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 128.476° East, latitude 26.0784° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us60009api. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009api. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Itoman, Naha-shi, Tomigusuku (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. 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: 66 km ESE of Haebaru, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	128.476° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	26.0784° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km ESE of Haebaru, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-16 21:23:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-24 03:24:57	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	0.776	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	us60009api	Id of event.
Event Code	60009api	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60009api,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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