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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 1 km SSW of Yoshino-cho, Japan


Earthquake location 34.3854S, 135.8527WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Yoshino-cho in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, 135.8527° East, 34.3854° North, depth 68.08 km. Event id: us2000i5ha. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000i5ha. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:51:51 / 8:51 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 68.08 km (42 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/10/18 / 2018-10-27 11:51:51 / October 27, 2018 @ 11:51 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Ōsaka-shi (c. 2 592 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Kobe (c. 1 528 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kyoto (c. 1 459 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Sakai (c. 782 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Nishinomiya-hama (c. 468 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Amagasaki (c. 442 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miki, Toba, Komono (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km SSW of Yoshino-cho, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 135.8527° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.3854° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SSW of Yoshino-cho, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-27 11:51:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-02 11:58:57 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 298 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 1.364 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us2000i5ha Id of event.
Event Code 2000i5ha An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i5ha, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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