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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Hachijo-jima in Japan

Posted by admin on September 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.2363S, 138.4364WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 241 km SSW of Hachijo-jima, Japan (150 miles). The temblor was detected at 14:10:45 / 2:10 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/16 / 2016-09-08 05:10:45 / September 8, 2016 @ 5:10 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 355.07 km (221 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10006my0. Event ids that are associated: us10006my0. Exact location of event, longitude 138.4364 East, latitude 31.2363 North, depth = 355.07 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 241 km SSW of Hachijo-jima, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.4364° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.2363° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 355.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 241km SSW of Hachijo-jima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-08 05:10:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-08 05:32:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 2.207 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us10006my0 Id of event.
Event Code 10006my0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006my0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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