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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Naze in Japan

Posted by admin on June 30, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.5773S, 128.6904WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Naze in Japan on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 00:22:29 / 12:22 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.04 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/06/17 / 2017-06-30 15:22:29 / June 30, 2017 @ 3:22 pm. Event id: us100095lb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100095lb. Exact location of event, depth 54.04 km, 128.6904° East, 28.5773° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naze (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 fourteen 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.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 81 km WNW of Naze, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.6904° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.5773° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km WNW of Naze, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-30 15:22:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-30 18:11:38 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 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 1.773 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us100095lb Id of event.
Event Code 100095lb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100095lb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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