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Moderate earthquake: M5.9 quake has struck near Ohara in Japan

Posted by admin on July 7, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.0916S, 140.6543WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Ohara in Japan. Id of earthquake: us2000fz0q. Event ids that are associated: us2000fz0q. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/07/18 / 2018-07-07 11:23:49 / July 7, 2018 @ 11:23 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.4 km (24 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 140.6543 East, latitude 35.0916 North, depth = 39.4 km. The 5.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:23:49 / 8:23 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 110 km (68 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 117 km (72 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 468 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Yokosuka (c. 429 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Musashino, Kamirenjaku, Machida.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 30 km SE of Ohara, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.6543° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SE of Ohara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-07 11:23:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-07 11:50:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 92 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.4 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 585 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 2.073 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us2000fz0q Id of event.
Event Code 2000fz0q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fz0q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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