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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Oyama in Japan


Earthquake location 33.0106S, 137.7689WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 181 km SSW of Oyama, Japan (112 miles) on Monday. The temblor was detected at 05:45:51 / 5:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/17 / 2017-09-24 20:45:51 / September 24, 2017 @ 8:45 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000au0x. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000au0x. Exact location of event, longitude 137.7689 East, latitude 33.0106 North, depth = 343.06 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 343.06 km (213 miles).

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 one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 181 km SSW of Oyama, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 137.7689° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.0106° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 343.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 181km SSW of Oyama, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-24 20:45:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-24 21:05:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 259 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 1.698 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us2000au0x Id of event.
Event Code 2000au0x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000au0x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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