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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Chichi-shima in Japan


Earthquake location 28.1919S, 139.6749WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 279 km WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan (173 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/06/18 / 2018-06-08 17:58:39 / June 8, 2018 @ 5:58 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 139.6749° East, 28.1919° North, depth 404.54 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 404.54 km (251 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 02:58:39 / 2:58 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000eq37. Unique identifier: us1000eq37.

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 279 km WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.6749° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.1919° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 404.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 279km WNW of Chichi-shima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-08 17:58:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-07 17:58:24 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 246 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 2.479 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us1000eq37 Id of event.
Event Code 1000eq37 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eq37, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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