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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Ishigaki in Japan

Posted by admin on November 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.4856S, 124.2933WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Ishigaki in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 124.2933 East, latitude 23.4856 North, depth = 6.35 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us200040hj. Unique identifier: us200040hj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 10:39:37 / 10:39 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.35 km (4 miles). Global time and date of event 26/10/15 / 2015-10-26 02:39:37 / October 26, 2015 @ 2:39 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishigaki. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 97 km (60 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 96 km S of Ishigaki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.2933° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.4856° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km S of Ishigaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-26 02:39:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 02:54:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 1.526 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us200040hj Id of event.
Event Code 200040hj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200040hj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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