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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Shizunai in Japan


Earthquake location 42.2815S, 143.0774WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. The temblor was reported at 10:59:08 / 10:59 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us700063hn. Unique identifier: us700063hn. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/10/19 / 2019-10-28 01:59:08 / October 28, 2019 @ 1:59 am. Exact location of event, longitude 143.0774 East, latitude 42.2815 North, depth = 66.67 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 66.67 km (41 miles).

Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Obihiro (c. 173 900 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Otofuke (c. 40 900 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otofuke, Obihiro, Shizunai-furukawachō. Close 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 two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 58 km E of Shizunai, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.0774° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.2815° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km E of Shizunai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-28 01:59:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-06 01:03:30 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 326 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 0.272 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us700063hn Id of event.
Event Code 700063hn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700063hn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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