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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Naze in Japan


Earthquake location 27.7316S, 128.9835WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Naze in Japan on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 14:13:51 / 2:13 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.47 km (38 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70003tad. Unique identifier: us70003tad. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/05/19 / 2019-05-23 05:13:51 / May 23, 2019 @ 5:13 am. Exact location of event, longitude 128.9835 East, latitude 27.7316 North, depth = 60.47 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naze (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 85 km SW of Naze, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.9835° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.7316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km SW of Naze, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-23 05:13:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-20 12:55:37 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 312 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 1.093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us70003tad Id of event.
Event Code 70003tad An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003tad, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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