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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Shingu in Japan


Earthquake location 32.4998S, 137.6219WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 205 km SE of Shingu, Japan (127 miles) on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 409.68 km, 137.6219° East, 32.4998° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10004dzk. Event ids that are associated: us10004dzk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 409.68 km (255 miles). Global time and date of event 04/01/16 / 2016-01-04 00:50:42 / January 4, 2016 @ 12:50 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 09:50:42 / 9:50 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 205 km SE of Shingu, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 137.6219° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.4998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 409.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 205km SE of Shingu, 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 00:50:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-31 00:53:05 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 246 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 1.922 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us10004dzk Id of event.
Event Code 10004dzk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004dzk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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