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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Hachijo-jima in Japan


Earthquake location 31.698S, 139.8459WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 153 km S of Hachijo-jima, Japan (95 miles) on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/11/17 / 2017-11-19 16:38:33 / November 19, 2017 @ 4:38 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 33.34 km (21 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:38:33 / 1:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 139.8459 East, latitude 31.698 North, depth = 33.34 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000brh8. Id of event: us2000brh8.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 153 km S of Hachijo-jima, Japan. This data 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 139.8459° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.698° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 153km S of Hachijo-jima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-19 16:38:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-19 16:57:41 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 1.413 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us2000brh8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000brh8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000brh8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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