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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Iwai in Japan

Posted by admin on August 10, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.0816S, 139.875WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Iwai in Japan on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.38 km (28 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:44:34 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 139.875° East, 36.0816° North, depth 44.38 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/08/15 / 2015-08-10 09:44:34 / August 10, 2015 @ 9:44 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us100030qi. Event ids that are associated: us100030qi.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hiratsuka, Numata, Hasaki (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 4 km NNW of Iwai, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.875° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0816° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NNW of Iwai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-10 09:44:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-10 21:40:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 329 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 0.295 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us100030qi Id of event.
Event Code 100030qi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100030qi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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