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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Chichi-shima in Japan


Earthquake location 26.8342S, 141.0796WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 116 km WSW of Chichi-shima, Japan (72 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/09/15 / 2015-09-14 03:47:43 / September 14, 2015 @ 3:47 am. Exact location of event, depth 113.18 km, 141.0796° East, 26.8342° North. Unique identifier: us20003p1b. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003p1b. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:47:43 / 12:47 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 113.18 km (70 miles).

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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 116 km WSW of Chichi-shima, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.0796° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.8342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116km WSW 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 2015-09-14 03:47:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-29 03:50:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 1.02 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us20003p1b Id of event.
Event Code 20003p1b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003p1b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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