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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Ishigaki in Japan


Earthquake location 24.2782S, 123.5756WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Ishigaki in Japan. The temblor was reported at 11:24:01 / 11:24 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20007dnc. Unique identifier: us20007dnc. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/10/16 / 2016-10-03 03:24:01 / October 3, 2016 @ 3:24 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 19.05 km (12 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 123.5756 East, latitude 24.2782 North, depth = 19.05 km.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ishigaki (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop).

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-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 59 km W of Ishigaki, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.5756° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.2782° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km W of Ishigaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-03 03:24:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-21 05:15:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 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 0.547 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us20007dnc Id of event.
Event Code 20007dnc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007dnc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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