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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Ishinomaki in Japan


Earthquake location 38.5198S, 141.8613WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/07/15 / 2015-07-02 06:05:46 / July 2, 2015 @ 6:05 am. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:05:46 / 3:05 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002mym. Id of event: us10002mym. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.8613 East, latitude 38.5198 North, depth = 61.57 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 61.57 km (38 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ōtsuchi, Tōno, Mizusawa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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: 50 km ENE of Ishinomaki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8613° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5198° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km ENE of Ishinomaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-02 06:05:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-02 06:26:22 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 326 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 1.065 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us10002mym Id of event.
Event Code 10002mym An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mym, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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