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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 141 km WSW of Naze, Japan


Earthquake location 27.8834S, 128.1531WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 141 km WSW of Naze, Japan (88 miles) on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005r5h. Id of event: us70005r5h. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/10/19 / 2019-10-05 20:32:24 / October 5, 2019 @ 8:32 pm. The temblor was picked up at 05:32:24 / 5:32 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.67 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.1531 East, latitude 27.8834 North, depth = 39.67 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 twelve 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 141 km WSW of Naze, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.1531° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.8834° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 141km WSW 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 2019-10-05 20:32:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-05 21:19:42 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 1.048 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 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 mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70005r5h Id of event.
Event Code 70005r5h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005r5h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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