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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Katsuura in Japan


Earthquake location 33.4783S, 141.0793WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 197 km SSE of Katsuura, Japan (122 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 141.0793 East, latitude 33.4783 North, depth = 44.68 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/10/20 / 2020-10-13 13:16:02 / October 13, 2020 @ 1:16 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:16:02 / 1:16 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000c806. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c806. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.68 km (28 miles).

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 twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 197 km SSE of Katsuura, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.0793° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.4783° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 197 km SSE of Katsuura, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-13 13:16:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-13 13:39:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 354 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 1.12 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 100 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 us6000c806 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c806 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c806, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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