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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Yonakuni in Japan


Earthquake location 24.2838S, 122.8371WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 26 km SW of Yonakuni, Japan (16 miles). Event id: us1000hsh5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hsh5. The temblor was reported at 08:34:16 / 8:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/11/18 / 2018-11-16 00:34:16 / November 16, 2018 @ 12:34 am. Exact location of event, longitude 122.8371 East, latitude 24.2838 North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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: 26 km SW of Yonakuni, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.8371° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.2838° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SW of Yonakuni, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-16 00:34:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-16 01:06:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 284 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 0.242 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hsh5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hsh5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hsh5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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