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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 87 km WNW of Naze, Japan


Earthquake location 28.6013S, 128.6333WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Naze in Japan. All ids that are associated to the event: us100097mf. Unique identifier: us100097mf. Exact location of event, longitude 128.6333 East, latitude 28.6013 North, depth = 40.96 km. 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 40.96 km (25 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:38:13 / 11:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/06/17 / 2017-06-30 14:38:13 / June 30, 2017 @ 2:38 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naze.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 87 km WNW of Naze, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.6333° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.6013° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km 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 14:38:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-09 10:22:17 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 312 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 1.787 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 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 us100097mf Id of event.
Event Code 100097mf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100097mf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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