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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Haebaru in Japan


Earthquake location 25.3847S, 130.5591WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 289 km ESE of Haebaru, Japan (180 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/08/18 / 2018-08-14 09:22:42 / August 14, 2018 @ 9:22 am. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:22:42 / 6:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 130.5591 East, latitude 25.3847 North, depth = 30.18 km. Unique identifier: us1000g8r3. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000g8r3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 30.18 km (19 miles).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 289 km ESE of Haebaru, 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 130.5591° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.3847° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 289km ESE of Haebaru, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-14 09:22:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-14 10:16:51 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 0.74 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 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 us1000g8r3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000g8r3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g8r3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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