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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Hachijo-jima in Japan

Posted by admin on July 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.5479S, 141.9066WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 261 km SE of Hachijo-jima, Japan (162 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000973w. Event ids that are associated: us1000973w. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.56 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:14:41 / 10:14 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/17 / 2017-07-06 01:14:41 / July 6, 2017 @ 1:14 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.9066 East, latitude 31.5479 North, depth = 8.56 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 261 km SE of Hachijo-jima, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.9066° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.5479° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 261km SE 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 2017-07-06 01:14:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-06 01:46:12 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 2.362 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us1000973w Id of event.
Event Code 1000973w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000973w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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