Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Takahagi in Japan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Takahagi in Japan on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 10:05:54 / 10:05 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.64 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 141.0639 East, latitude 36.5831 North, depth = 34.64 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/11/20 / 2020-11-22 10:05:54 / November 22, 2020 @ 10:05 am. Id of earthquake: us6000crfr. Event ids that are associated: us6000crfr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Narita, Ishige, Yūki (min 5000 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 two and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.0639° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5831° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.64 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34 km 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	2020-11-22 10:05:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-22 10:25:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	7	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	468	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	2.302	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	us6000crfr	Id of event.
Event Code	6000crfr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000crfr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

141.0639° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

36.5831° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

34.64 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

34 km 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

2020-11-22 10:05:54

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-11-22 10:25:02

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

4.1

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

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

468

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

2.302

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.17 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

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

us6000crfr

Id of event.

Event Code

6000crfr

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us6000crfr,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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