Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 159 km NNE of Chichi-shima, Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 159 km NNE of Chichi-shima, Japan (99 miles). Exact location, longitude 142.6881° East, latitude 28.4625° North, depth = 24.67 km. Id of earthquake: us600084p9. Event ids that are associated: us600084p9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/02/20 / 2020-02-20 12:33:06 / February 20, 2020 @ 12:33 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.67 km (15 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:33:06 / 10:33 pm (local time epicenter).

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 seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 159 km NNE of Chichi-shima, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.6881° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.4625° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.67 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	159km NNE of Chichi-shima, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-20 12:33:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-27 09:56:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	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	1.432	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	163	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	us600084p9	Id of event.
Event Code	600084p9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600084p9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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