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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Ofunato in Japan


Earthquake location 38.773S, 142.1174WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Ofunato in Japan on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.94 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 142.1174 East, latitude 38.773 North, depth = 37.94 km. The temblor was reported at 19:41:55 / 7:41 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10002ni7. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002ni7. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/07/15 / 2015-07-05 10:41:55 / July 5, 2015 @ 10:41 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Yamoto (c. 32 000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miyako, Kogota, Mizusawa.

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 five and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 48 km SE of Ofunato, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.1174° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.773° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km SE of Ofunato, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-05 10:41:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-05 10:59:00 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 340 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 1.38 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us10002ni7 Id of event.
Event Code 10002ni7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002ni7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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