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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 112 km SSE of Iwo Jima, Japan


Earthquake location 23.8976S, 141.8802WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 112 km SSE of Iwo Jima, Japan (70 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/17 / 2017-09-18 15:23:43 / September 18, 2017 @ 3:23 pm. Exact location of event, depth 78.83 km, 141.8802° East, 23.8976° North. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:23:43 / 12:23 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000awlb. Id of event: us2000awlb. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 78.83 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 112 km SSE of Iwo Jima, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8802° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.8976° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km SSE of Iwo 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 2017-09-18 15:23:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-11 16:08:56 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 3.196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us2000awlb Id of event.
Event Code 2000awlb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000awlb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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