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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Shingu in Japan


Earthquake location 32.8239S, 137.6999WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 189 km ESE of Shingu, Japan (117 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006bl4. Unique identifier: us70006bl4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 356.38 km (221 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/11/19 / 2019-11-15 00:40:38 / November 15, 2019 @ 12:40 am. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:40:38 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 137.6999 East, latitude 32.8239 North, depth = 356.38 km.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 189 km ESE of Shingu, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 137.6999° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.8239° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 356.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 189km ESE of Shingu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-15 00:40:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-23 05:14:24 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 246 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 1.775 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us70006bl4 Id of event.
Event Code 70006bl4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006bl4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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