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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 24 km NNE of Naze, Japan

Posted by admin on September 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.5598S, 129.5974WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Naze in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/08/20 / 2020-08-08 11:54:55 / August 8, 2020 @ 11:54 am. Event id: us6000be33. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000be33. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.61 km (34 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 129.5974 East, latitude 28.5598 North, depth = 54.61 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:54:55 / 11:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naze (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 24 km NNE of Naze, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.5974° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.5598° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km NNE of Naze, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-08 11:54:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-05 05:55:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 298 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 2.08 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us6000be33 Id of event.
Event Code 6000be33 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000be33, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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