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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 35 km SSW of Nemuro, Japan


Earthquake location 43.0204S, 145.4292WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Nemuro in Japan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36.3 km (23 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/15 / 2015-08-11 11:05:41 / August 11, 2015 @ 11:05 am. Id of earthquake: us1000312v. Event ids that are associated: us1000312v. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:05:41 / 8:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 145.4292° East, latitude 43.0204° North, depth = 36.3 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kushiro, Shibetsu, Nemuro. The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 35 km SSW of Nemuro, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.4292° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.0204° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km SSW of Nemuro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-11 11:05:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-11 11:29:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 1.957 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us1000312v Id of event.
Event Code 1000312v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000312v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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