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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Yonakuni in Japan


Earthquake location 24.6861S, 122.5213WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.84 km (9 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 22:27:59 / 10:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 13.84 km, 122.5213° East, 24.6861° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/11/17 / 2017-11-07 14:27:59 / November 7, 2017 @ 2:27 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bq8r. Unique identifier: us2000bq8r.

Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Keelung, Yilan (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: 54 km WNW of Yonakuni, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.5213° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.6861° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km WNW of Yonakuni, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-07 14:27:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-21 20:41:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 0.496 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us2000bq8r Id of event.
Event Code 2000bq8r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bq8r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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