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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Oda in Japan


Earthquake location 35.138S, 132.5089WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Oda in Japan on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.01 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 01:56:47 / 1:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 132.5089 East, latitude 35.138 North, depth = 9.01 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/04/18 / 2018-04-08 16:56:47 / April 8, 2018 @ 4:56 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000dwhj. Event ids that are associated: us2000dwhj.

The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Hiroshima-shi (c. 1 143 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Matsue-shi (c. 156 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Yonago (c. 141 400 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Izumo (c. 89 300 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Mihara (c. 80 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Hatsukaichi (c. 77 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Fuchūchō (c. 50 700 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōno-hara, Mihara, Takehara.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 5 km S of Oda, Japan. This information 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 132.5089° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.138° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km S of Oda, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-08 16:56:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-08 18:26:15 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 1.801 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us2000dwhj Id of event.
Event Code 2000dwhj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dwhj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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