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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Ishinomaki in Japan


Earthquake location 38.2164S, 141.5338WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 66.74 km, 141.5338° East, 38.2164° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/08/15 / 2015-08-09 02:08:55 / August 9, 2015 @ 2:08 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66.74 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 11:08:55 / 11:08 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us100030hq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100030hq. 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 Yanagawamachi-saiwaichō, Ichinoseki, Shiroishi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km SE of Ishinomaki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.5338° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2164° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SE 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 2015-08-09 02:08:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-02 03:30:31 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 259 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 0.682 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us100030hq Id of event.
Event Code 100030hq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100030hq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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