Quakedle
Puzzle #79 was 0 km NNE of Yōkaichiba, Japan.
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USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M5.3 — moderate class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 41.6 km — shallow
- Region
- Japan
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 22 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- No PAGER alert color reported
- Tectonic plates
- Pacific Plate · Philippine Sea Plate · Eurasian Plate · North American Plate
- Tectonic context
- Japan sits at a complex set of subduction boundaries involving the Pacific and Philippine Sea plates and overriding continental plates.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M5.3. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Moderate (M5.0–5.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 41.6 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “0 km NNE of Yōkaichiba, Japan”. Which broad authored region matches?
- Japan
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- Is this the largest earthquake in the supplied USGS week comparison?
- No — at least one supplied week event has a higher magnitude.