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

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Haebaru in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.68 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 128.5219 East, latitude 25.931 North, depth = 5.68 km. Global time and date of event 24/07/18 / 2018-07-24 14:07:44 / July 24, 2018 @ 2:07 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:07:44 / 11:07 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000gf7h. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000gf7h.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nago, Naha-shi, Ishikawa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 79 km SE of Haebaru, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	128.5219° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	25.931° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.68 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	79km SE of Haebaru, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-24 14:07:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-31 14:07:43	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	0.928	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	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	us2000gf7h	Id of event.
Event Code	2000gf7h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000gf7h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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