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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 15 km SSW of Tanabe, Japan


Earthquake location 33.6118S, 135.2762WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Tanabe in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/11/18 / 2018-11-04 23:19:16 / November 4, 2018 @ 11:19 pm. 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 36.55 km (23 miles). Exact location, longitude 135.2762° East, latitude 33.6118° North, depth = 36.55 km. Id of earthquake: us2000i6tg. Event ids that are associated: us2000i6tg. The temblor was picked up at 08:19:16 / 8:19 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Minato (c. 375 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Wakayama-shi (c. 351 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Tokushima-shi (c. 267 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kishiwada (c. 205 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kaizuka (c. 92 600 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Tanabe (c. 69 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Narutochō-mitsuishi (c. 64 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kishiwada, Kaizuka, Ishii.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 15 km SSW of Tanabe, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 135.2762° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.6118° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSW of Tanabe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-04 23:19:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-04 23:40:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 1.173 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000i6tg Id of event.
Event Code 2000i6tg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i6tg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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