Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Nago in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 172 km E of Nago, Japan (107 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/09/18 / 2018-09-15 04:14:37 / September 15, 2018 @ 4:14 am. The temblor was reported at 13:14:37 / 1:14 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hezn. Id of event: us2000hezn. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.97 km (14 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.7009 East, latitude 26.7201 North, depth = 21.97 km.

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

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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. 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: 172 km E of Nago, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	129.7009° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	26.7201° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.97 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	172km E of Nago, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-15 04:14:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-15 04:41:52	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	369	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	1.635	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	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	us2000hezn	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hezn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hezn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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