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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Nago in Japan


Earthquake location 27.0476S, 127.885WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Nago in Japan on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 02:58:14 / 2:58 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 59.06 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/20 / 2020-09-08 02:58:14 / September 8, 2020 @ 2:58 am. Exact location of earthquake, 127.885° East, 27.0476° North, depth 59.06 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bjiq. Unique identifier: us7000bjiq.

Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Itoman, Tomigusuku, Naha-shi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 48 km NNW of Nago, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.885° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.0476° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 km NNW of Nago, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-08 02:58:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-08 03:18:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 417 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 0.405 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 65 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 us7000bjiq Id of event.
Event Code 7000bjiq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bjiq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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