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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 163 km E of Nago, Japan


Earthquake location 26.7306S, 129.6077WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 163 km E of Nago, Japan (101 miles) on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/09/18 / 2018-09-15 01:41:58 / September 15, 2018 @ 1:41 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hi9k. Id of event: us2000hi9k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:41:58 / 10:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 129.6077 East, latitude 26.7306 North, depth = 28.4 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 28.4 km (18 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 163 km E of Nago, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.6077° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.7306° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 163km E of Nago, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-15 01:41:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-03 05:32:25 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 354 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 1.198 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us2000hi9k Id of event.
Event Code 2000hi9k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hi9k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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