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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Haebaru in Japan


Earthquake location 25.947S, 128.4265WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Haebaru in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 18.41 km (11 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:58:54 / 11:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 18.41 km, 128.4265° East, 25.947° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/10/18 / 2018-10-17 02:58:54 / October 17, 2018 @ 2:58 am. Unique identifier: us1000hg1k. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hg1k.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nago, Ishikawa, Naha-shi.

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

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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. 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: 70 km SE of Haebaru, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.4265° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.947° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km 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 2018-10-17 02:58:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-25 00:53:05 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 0.896 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us1000hg1k Id of event.
Event Code 1000hg1k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hg1k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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