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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 17 km NW of Ishikawa, Japan


Earthquake location 26.5308S, 127.6927WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Ishikawa in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 09:36:11 / January 16, 2020 @ 9:36 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 18:36:11 / 6:36 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us700070u5. Ids that are associated to the event: us700070u5. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.6927 East, latitude 26.5308 North, depth = 5 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Itoman, Tomigusuku, Naha-shi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km NW of Ishikawa, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.6927° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.5308° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NW of Ishikawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-16 09:36:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 09:54:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 327 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 0.601 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us700070u5 Id of event.
Event Code 700070u5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700070u5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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