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Light earthquake 4 mag, 197 km SE of Shingu, Japan


Earthquake location 32.4574S, 137.4636WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 197 km SE of Shingu, Japan (122 miles) on Saturday. Unique identifier: us10008f8d. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008f8d. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 413.6 km (257 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/03/17 / 2017-03-31 20:22:52 / March 31, 2017 @ 8:22 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 137.4636° East, 32.4574° North, depth 413.6 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:22:52 / 5:22 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine 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. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 197 km SE of Shingu, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 137.4636° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.4574° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 413.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 197km SE of Shingu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-31 20:22:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-25 19:35:05 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 246 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 2.907 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 112 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 us10008f8d Id of event.
Event Code 10008f8d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008f8d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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