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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 49 km ESE of Shimoda, Japan


Earthquake location 34.4584S, 139.425WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Shimoda in Japan. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/05/17 / 2017-05-22 03:25:47 / May 22, 2017 @ 3:25 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 12:25:47 / 12:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 139.425° East, 34.4584° North, depth 10.85 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10008u36. Event ids that are associated: us10008u36. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.85 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chigasaki, Hiratsuka, Kamakura (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Yokosuka (c. 429 000 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Hiratsuka (c. 259 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Chigasaki (c. 231 700 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Numazu (c. 204 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Odawara (c. 203 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kamakura (c. 166 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mishima (c. 113 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 49 km ESE of Shimoda, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.425° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.4584° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km ESE of Shimoda, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-22 03:25:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-22 03:44:25 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 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 1.048 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us10008u36 Id of event.
Event Code 10008u36 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008u36, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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