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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Makurazaki in Japan


Earthquake location 31.3046S, 128.8636WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 138 km W of Makurazaki, Japan (86 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude 128.8636 East, latitude 31.3046 North, depth = 27.53 km. Id of earthquake: us10003zkd. Event ids that are associated: us10003zkd. The temblor was detected at 23:41:50 / 11:41 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 14:41:50 / November 19, 2015 @ 2:41 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.53 km (17 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 138 km W of Makurazaki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.8636° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3046° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 138km W of Makurazaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-19 14:41:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 15:05:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 340 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 1.374 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us10003zkd Id of event.
Event Code 10003zkd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zkd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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