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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Owase in Japan


Earthquake location 33.9183S, 136.7851WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Owase in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 350.86 km (218 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/10/17 / 2017-10-13 04:47:15 / October 13, 2017 @ 4:47 am. Exact location of event, longitude 136.7851 East, latitude 33.9183 North, depth = 350.86 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:47:15 / 1:47 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ar94. Id of event: us1000ar94.

The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Tsu-shi (c. 163 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ise (c. 97 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Hisai-motomachi (c. 41 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Tahara (c. 38 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Shingū (c. 31 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Toba (c. 23 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Owase (c. 22 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tahara, Tsu-shi, Toyohama (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

Questions or comments?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 56 km ESE of Owase, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.7851° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.9183° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 350.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km ESE of Owase, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-13 04:47:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-13 05:05:24 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 1.383 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us1000ar94 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ar94 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ar94, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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