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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 224 km N of Chichi-shima, Japan


Earthquake location 29.1048S, 142.3426WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 224 km N of Chichi-shima, Japan (139 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:19:42 / 4:19 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000b2u8. Unique identifier: us2000b2u8. Exact location of event, longitude 142.3426 East, latitude 29.1048 North, depth = 20.24 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.24 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/10/17 / 2017-10-08 19:19:42 / October 8, 2017 @ 7:19 pm UTC/GMT.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 224 km N of Chichi-shima, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.3426° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.1048° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 224km N of Chichi-shima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-08 19:19:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-08 19:46:25 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 2.006 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us2000b2u8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000b2u8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b2u8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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