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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Yonakuni in Japan

Posted by admin on November 17, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.78S, 122.5107WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.73 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/11/17 / 2017-11-17 19:30:30 / November 17, 2017 @ 7:30 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 122.5107° East, latitude 23.78° North, depth = 16.73 km. Event id: us2000bqmx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bqmx. The temblor was reported at 03:30:30 / 3:30 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hualian (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 five and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 90 km SSW of Yonakuni, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.5107° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.78° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km SSW of Yonakuni, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-17 19:30:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-17 21:19:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 0.822 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 102 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 us2000bqmx Id of event.
Event Code 2000bqmx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bqmx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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