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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 91 km E of Miyako, Japan


Earthquake location 39.6815S, 143.0182WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Miyako in Japan on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/11/15 / 2015-11-10 14:12:46 / November 10, 2015 @ 2:12 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.0182 East, latitude 39.6815 North, depth = 32.89 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.89 km (20 miles). The temblor was picked up at 00:12:46 / 12:12 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003way. Id of event: us10003way.

Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamada, Miyako (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 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 four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 91 km E of Miyako, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.0182° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.6815° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km E 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 2015-11-10 14:12:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-10 17:27:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 354 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 2.106 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us10003way Id of event.
Event Code 10003way An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003way, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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