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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan

Posted by admin on December 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.2265S, 125.291WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan kilometers (0 miles) from southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/12/20 / 2020-12-11 09:48:40 / December 11, 2020 @ 9:48 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 09:48:40 / 9:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.18 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.291 East, latitude 24.2265 North, depth = 23.18 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cq77. Id of event: us7000cq77.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hirara (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days fifteen 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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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 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: southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.291° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.2265° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-11 09:48:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-11 10:04:16 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 400 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 2.093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us7000cq77 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cq77 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cq77, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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