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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Haebaru in Japan

Posted by admin on January 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 25.9308S, 128.2942WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Haebaru in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.59 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:53:14 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 128.2942° East, 25.9308° North, depth 12.59 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004b6h. Id of event: us10004b6h. 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: 04/01/16 / 2016-01-04 13:53:14 / January 4, 2016 @ 1:53 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nago, Ishikawa, Naha-shi (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 61 km SE of Haebaru, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.2942° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.9308° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km SE of Haebaru, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-04 13:53:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-04 14:32:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 370 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 0.901 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us10004b6h Id of event.
Event Code 10004b6h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004b6h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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