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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 82 km NE of Miyako, Japan

Posted by admin on October 27, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.1507S, 142.6434WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Miyako in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.02 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 07:01:15 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000cdmw. Event ids that are associated: us6000cdmw. Exact location of earthquake, 142.6434° East, 40.1507° North, depth 42.02 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/10/20 / 2020-10-27 07:01:15 / October 27, 2020 @ 7:01 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamada, Miyako. Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 82 km NE of Miyako, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.6434° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.1507° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82 km NE of Miyako, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-27 07:01:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-27 07:22:43 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 340 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 1.362 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us6000cdmw Id of event.
Event Code 6000cdmw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cdmw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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