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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Nago in Japan

Posted by admin on March 23, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 26.517S, 128.7586WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Nago in Japan. Id of earthquake: us70008ej4. Event ids that are associated: us70008ej4. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/03/20 / 2020-03-23 13:57:28 / March 23, 2020 @ 1:57 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 128.7586° East, 26.517° North, depth 17.57 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 22:57:28 / 10:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.57 km (11 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 97 km (61 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Katsuren-haebaru (c. 34 200 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Chatan (c. 27 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Ishikawa (c. 22 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chatan, Okinawa, Ishikawa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 78 km E of Nago, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.7586° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.517° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km E of Nago, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-23 13:57:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-23 14:39:44 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 369 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 0.538 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us70008ej4 Id of event.
Event Code 70008ej4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008ej4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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