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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan

Posted by admin on September 10, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.3064S, 124.0058WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan kilometers (0 miles) from southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.0058 East, latitude 24.3064 North, depth = 48.14 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/09/15 / 2015-09-06 15:23:26 / September 6, 2015 @ 3:23 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 48.14 km (30 miles). The temblor was picked up at 15:23:26 / 3:23 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20003gz1. Event ids that are associated: us20003gz1. 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 event was 16 km (10 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ishigaki.

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.0058° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.3064° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.14 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 2015-09-06 15:23:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-10 16:26:54 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 312 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 0.92 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003gz1 Id of event.
Event Code 20003gz1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003gz1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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