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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Shizunai in Japan


Earthquake location 42.0119S, 142.2554WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000brtd. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000brtd. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 13:17:59 / November 20, 2017 @ 1:17 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 22:17:59 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 57.83 km (36 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 142.2554 East, latitude 42.0119 North, depth = 57.83 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chitose, Shiraoi, Tomakomai (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Tomakomai (c. 174 800 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Chitose (c. 92 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Shiraoi (c. 20 800 pop).

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 thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 36 km SSW of Shizunai, 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 142.2554° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.0119° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km SSW of Shizunai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-20 13:17:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-20 15:05:27 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 0.672 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us2000brtd Id of event.
Event Code 2000brtd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000brtd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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