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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 233 km SSW of Hachijo-jima, Japan


Earthquake location 31.1786S, 138.7446WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 233 km SSW of Hachijo-jima, Japan (145 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 138.7446 East, latitude 31.1786 North, depth = 371.24 km. The temblor was detected at 06:12:35 / 6:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/09/19 / 2019-09-29 21:12:35 / September 29, 2019 @ 9:12 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 371.24 km (231 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005s52. Id of event: us70005s52.

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 two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. 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: 233 km SSW of Hachijo-jima, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.7446° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.1786° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 371.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 233km SSW of Hachijo-jima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-29 21:12:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-28 21:07:31 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 2.126 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us70005s52 Id of event.
Event Code 70005s52 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005s52, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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