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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 99 km NNE of Chichi-shima, Japan


Earthquake location 27.8367S, 142.7558WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 99 km NNE of Chichi-shima, Japan (62 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 142.7558° East, 27.8367° North, depth 12.93 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.93 km (8 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/09/19 / 2019-09-07 14:16:16 / September 7, 2019 @ 2:16 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:16:16 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005d79. Id of event: us70005d79.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 99 km NNE of Chichi-shima, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.7558° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.8367° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km NNE of Chichi-shima, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-07 14:16:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-07 14:50:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 340 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 0.895 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us70005d79 Id of event.
Event Code 70005d79 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005d79, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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