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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Shikoku in Japan


Earthquake location 30.299S, 136.8041WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported southeast of Shikoku, Japan (0 miles) on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000apwb. Unique identifier: us7000apwb. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:03:09 / 8:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 136.8041 East, latitude 30.299 North, depth = 499.98 km. Global time and date of event 16/07/20 / 2020-07-16 20:03:09 / July 16, 2020 @ 8:03 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 499.98 km (311 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: southeast of Shikoku, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.8041° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.299° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 499.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place southeast of Shikoku, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-16 20:03:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-16 20:20:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 3.802 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us7000apwb Id of event.
Event Code 7000apwb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000apwb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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