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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Ishinomaki in Japan

Posted by admin on August 24, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.9534S, 142.447WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 112 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan (70 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.76 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us100034er. Ids that are associated to the event: us100034er. Exact location of event, depth 40.76 km, 142.447° East, 37.9534° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 24/08/15 / 2015-08-24 03:59:09 / August 24, 2015 @ 3:59 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 12:59:09 / 12:59 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 112 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.447° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9534° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km ESE 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 2015-08-24 03:59:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-24 04:17:29 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 312 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 1.313 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 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 us100034er Id of event.
Event Code 100034er An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100034er, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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