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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Shizunai in Japan


Earthquake location 42.0495S, 142.0911WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. The temblor was detected at 07:03:51 / 7:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.0911 East, latitude 42.0495 North, depth = 75.35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/06/16 / 2016-06-24 22:03:51 / June 24, 2016 @ 10:03 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75.35 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us200066nd. Unique identifier: us200066nd.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Muroran, Chitose, Shiraoi. Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Tomakomai (c. 174 800 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Muroran (c. 96 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Chitose (c. 92 900 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Shiraoi (c. 20 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-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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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: 38 km SW of Shizunai, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.0911° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.0495° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km SW of Shizunai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-24 22:03:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-24 22:47:13 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 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 0.795 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us200066nd Id of event.
Event Code 200066nd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200066nd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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