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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Hachijo-jima in Japan

Posted by admin on November 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 30.5679S, 140.6791WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 291 km SSE of Hachijo-jima, Japan (181 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 47.99 km (30 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:01:15 / 11:01 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 08/11/19 / 2019-11-08 02:01:15 / November 8, 2019 @ 2:01 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 47.99 km, 140.6791° East, 30.5679° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us60006c0g. Unique identifier: us60006c0g.

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 291 km SSE of Hachijo-jima, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.6791° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.5679° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 291km SSE 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 2019-11-08 02:01:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-16 00:21:59 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 2.644 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us60006c0g Id of event.
Event Code 60006c0g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006c0g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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