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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Ishinomaki in Japan


Earthquake location 38.3372S, 142.1WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan on Saturday. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:24:42 / 11:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 142.1° East, 38.3372° North, depth 57.11 km. Global time and date of event 01/08/15 / 2015-08-01 14:24:42 / August 1, 2015 @ 2:24 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002x4l. Unique identifier: us10002x4l. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.11 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rifu, Kogota, Shiogama (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Rifu (c. 35 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Yamoto (c. 32 000 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Kogota (c. 19 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Wakuya (c. 18 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 70 km E of Ishinomaki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.1° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3372° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km E 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 2015-08-01 14:24:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-01 14:41:55 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 1.134 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us10002x4l Id of event.
Event Code 10002x4l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002x4l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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