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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Owase in Japan


Earthquake location 33.7514S, 136.7827WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Owase in Japan. Exact location, longitude 136.7827° East, latitude 33.7514° North, depth = 371.55 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hj4d. Id of event: us2000hj4d. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 371.55 km (231 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 06:33:41 / 6:33 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/09/18 / 2018-09-23 21:33:41 / September 23, 2018 @ 9:33 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Ise (c. 97 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Shingū (c. 31 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Toba (c. 23 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Owase (c. 22 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ise, Toba, Shingū. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 ten 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 64 km ESE of Owase, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.7827° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.7514° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 371.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km ESE of Owase, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-23 21:33:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-23 21:56:55 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 259 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 2.421 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us2000hj4d Id of event.
Event Code 2000hj4d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hj4d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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