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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake strikes near Yaizu in Japan


Earthquake location 34.7822S, 138.4946WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (mg/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Yaizu in Japan. The temblor was reported at 00:12:49 / 12:12 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 218.49 km (136 miles). Global time of event 13/03/15 / 2015-03-13 15:12:49 / March 13, 2015 @ 3:12 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 138.4946 East, latitude 34.7822 North, depth 218.49 km, unique identifier, us10001m4z.

Close countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hamamatsu (c. 605 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Fuji (c. 240 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Numazu (c. 204 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Odawara (c. 203 000 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōiso, Hadano, Shinshiro.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.4946° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.7822° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 218.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km ESE of Yaizu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-03-13 15:12:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-03-13 19:14:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 298 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 0.277 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us10001m4z Id of event.
Event Code 10001m4z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10001m4z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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