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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Shimoda in Japan

Posted by admin on November 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.5987S, 139.0693WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Shimoda in Japan. All ids that are associated to the event: us70006944. Unique identifier: us70006944. Exact location, longitude 139.0693° East, latitude 34.5987° North, depth = 14.29 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/11/19 / 2019-11-17 11:05:33 / November 17, 2019 @ 11:05 am. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:05:33 / 8:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.29 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Yokosuka (c. 429 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Fujisawa (c. 394 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hiratsuka (c. 259 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Fuji (c. 240 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Chigasaki (c. 231 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Atsugi (c. 229 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kakegawa, Atsugi, Yokosuka.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 13 km SE of Shimoda, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.0693° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.5987° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SE of Shimoda, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-17 11:05:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-17 11:24:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 356 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 0.735 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us70006944 Id of event.
Event Code 70006944 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006944, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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