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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Kushikino in Japan


Earthquake location 31.4287S, 129.0645WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 118 km WSW of Kushikino, Japan (73 miles) on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/10/17 / 2017-10-28 14:49:53 / October 28, 2017 @ 2:49 pm. The temblor was picked up at 23:49:53 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 43.02 km, 129.0645° East, 31.4287° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ay1w. Id of event: us1000ay1w. 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 43.02 km (27 miles).

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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 118 km WSW of Kushikino, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.0645° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.4287° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 118km WSW of Kushikino, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-28 14:49:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-28 15:54:44 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 340 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 1.188 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us1000ay1w Id of event.
Event Code 1000ay1w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ay1w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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