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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Naze in Japan


Earthquake location 28.0626S, 129.4134WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Naze in Japan on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 46.7 km (29 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.4134 East, latitude 28.0626 North, depth = 46.7 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:48:12 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000cdkp. Event ids that are associated: us1000cdkp. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/02/18 / 2018-02-01 06:48:12 / February 1, 2018 @ 6:48 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naze (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Nearby 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. 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 34 km SSW of Naze, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.4134° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.0626° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SSW of Naze, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-01 06:48:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-01 08:16:30 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 298 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 1.587 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us1000cdkp Id of event.
Event Code 1000cdkp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cdkp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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