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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 46 km ESE of Yonakuni, Japan


Earthquake location 24.2778S, 123.4107WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000hivk. Event ids that are associated: us1000hivk. Exact location, longitude 123.4107° East, latitude 24.2778° North, depth = 45.46 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 45.46 km (28 miles). The temblor was reported at 10:34:42 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/10/18 / 2018-10-30 02:34:42 / October 30, 2018 @ 2:34 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Ishigaki (c. 44 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishigaki (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km ESE of Yonakuni, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.4107° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.2778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km ESE 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 2018-10-30 02:34:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-30 02:55:35 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 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 0.41 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 92 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 us1000hivk Id of event.
Event Code 1000hivk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hivk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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