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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Naze in Japan


Earthquake location 27.9985S, 130.1074WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Naze in Japan. Event id: us600057ck. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600057ck. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.07 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 130.1074° East, latitude 27.9985° North, depth = 10.07 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:20:23 / 5:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/08/19 / 2019-08-20 08:20:23 / August 20, 2019 @ 8:20 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naze (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Naze (c. 41 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 73 km ESE of Naze, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.1074° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.9985° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km ESE of Naze, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-20 08:20:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-20 08:40:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 369 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 2 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us600057ck Id of event.
Event Code 600057ck An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600057ck, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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