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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Naze in Japan


Earthquake location 26.9194S, 129.7596WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 162 km S of Naze, Japan (101 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20006g2c. Unique identifier: us20006g2c. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:49:13 / 2:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.7596 East, latitude 26.9194 North, depth = 22.42 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/07/16 / 2016-07-20 05:49:13 / July 20, 2016 @ 5:49 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.42 km (14 miles).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 162 km S of Naze, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.7596° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.9194° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 162km S of Naze, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-20 05:49:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-20 06:31:37 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 1.33 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 87 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 us20006g2c Id of event.
Event Code 20006g2c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006g2c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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