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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Yamada in Japan


Earthquake location 39.3429S, 143.4613WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 130 km E of Yamada, Japan (81 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:17:13 / 5:17 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.51 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100072xa. Id of event: us100072xa. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/10/16 / 2016-10-29 07:17:13 / October 29, 2016 @ 7:17 am. Exact location of event, depth 15.51 km, 143.4613° East, 39.3429° North.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 130 km E of Yamada, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.4613° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3429° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130km E of Yamada, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-29 07:17:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-29 07:33:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 2.338 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100072xa Id of event.
Event Code 100072xa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100072xa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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