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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Miyako in Japan


Earthquake location 39.9352S, 143.5914WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 144 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (89 miles). 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 00:40:48 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.32 km (13 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/05/17 / 2017-05-20 14:40:48 / May 20, 2017 @ 2:40 pm. Id of earthquake: us10008ttu. Event ids that are associated: us10008ttu. Exact location, longitude 143.5914° East, latitude 39.9352° North, depth = 20.32 km.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 144 km ENE of Miyako, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.5914° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.9352° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 144km ENE 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 2017-05-20 14:40:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-20 14:56:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 2.103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us10008ttu Id of event.
Event Code 10008ttu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008ttu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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