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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Komatsushima in Japan

Posted by admin on November 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.95S, 134.4942WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Komatsushima in Japan. Event id: us1000hwig. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hwig. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.19 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 134.4942 East, latitude 33.95 North, depth = 38.19 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/11/18 / 2018-11-25 09:19:05 / November 25, 2018 @ 9:19 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 18:19:05 / 6:19 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kurashiki, Kaizuka, Kakogawachō-honmachi. Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (59 miles) from Okayama-shi (c. 639 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kurashiki (c. 437 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Minato (c. 375 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Wakayama-shi (c. 351 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Takamatsu-shi (c. 334 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Akashi (c. 297 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Kakogawachō-honmachi (c. 271 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 9 km SW of Komatsushima, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 134.4942° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.95° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SW of Komatsushima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-25 09:19:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-25 23:24:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 326 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 0.558 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us1000hwig Id of event.
Event Code 1000hwig An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hwig, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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