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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 23 km N of Shizunai, Japan


Earthquake location 42.5431S, 142.3941WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. The temblor was detected at 20:03:28 / 8:03 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000c33d. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000c33d. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 113.65 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/01/18 / 2018-01-10 11:03:28 / January 10, 2018 @ 11:03 am. Exact location, longitude 142.3941° East, latitude 42.5431° North, depth = 113.65 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Tomakomai (c. 174 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Obihiro (c. 173 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ebetsu (c. 134 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Chitose (c. 92 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Iwamizawa (c. 85 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kitahiroshima (c. 62 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Otofuke (c. 40 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bibai, Ebetsu, Shimo-furano. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km N of Shizunai, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.3941° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5431° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km N of Shizunai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-10 11:03:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-10 11:26:26 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 0.774 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 80 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 us1000c33d Id of event.
Event Code 1000c33d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000c33d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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