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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Tomigusuku in Japan


Earthquake location 26.2735S, 126.8502WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Tomigusuku in Japan on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/09/16 / 2016-09-07 02:16:52 / September 7, 2016 @ 2:16 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10006mkz. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006mkz. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 68.78 km (43 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 126.8502° East, 26.2735° North, depth 68.78 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:16:52 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Chatan (c. 27 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Ishikawa (c. 22 400 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishikawa, Okinawa, Chatan.

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 82 km W of Tomigusuku, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8502° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.2735° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km W of Tomigusuku, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-07 02:16:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-07 04:12:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 326 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 1.391 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us10006mkz Id of event.
Event Code 10006mkz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006mkz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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