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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Haebaru in Japan


Earthquake location 26.0205S, 128.6329WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Haebaru in Japan on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:42:43 / 7:42 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10007rax. Event ids that are associated: us10007rax. Exact location of event, longitude 128.6329 East, latitude 26.0205 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/01/17 / 2017-01-05 10:42:43 / January 5, 2017 @ 10:42 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naha-shi, Itoman, Tomigusuku (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 97 km (61 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 83 km ESE of Haebaru, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.6329° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.0205° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km ESE of Haebaru, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-05 10:42:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-05 11:00:41 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 0.874 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us10007rax Id of event.
Event Code 10007rax An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007rax, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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