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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Shizunai in Japan


Earthquake location 42.0438S, 142.5262WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.5262 East, latitude 42.0438 North, depth = 65.5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/04/20 / 2020-04-28 13:15:31 / April 28, 2020 @ 1:15 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65.5 km (41 miles). Unique identifier: us60009dxg. Ids that are associated to the event: us60009dxg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 22:15:31 / 10:15 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shizunai-furukawachō (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km SSE of Shizunai, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.5262° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.0438° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SSE of Shizunai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-28 13:15:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-28 13:42:36 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 312 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 1.666 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us60009dxg Id of event.
Event Code 60009dxg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009dxg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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