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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 90 km E of Nishinoomote, Japan

Posted by admin on December 19, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.7416S, 131.9478WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Nishinoomote in Japan on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 11:33:56 / 11:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 33.54 km, 131.9478° East, 30.7416° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.54 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/12/17 / 2017-12-19 02:33:56 / December 19, 2017 @ 2:33 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bsxf. Id of event: us1000bsxf.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (56 miles) from Nishinoomote (c. 17 800 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nishinoomote (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 90 km E of Nishinoomote, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.9478° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.7416° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km E of Nishinoomote, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-19 02:33:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-19 03:19:20 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 354 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 2.544 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us1000bsxf Id of event.
Event Code 1000bsxf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bsxf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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