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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Muroto in Japan

Posted by admin on September 2, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 33.2476S, 134.527WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Muroto in Japan on Wednesday. Unique identifier: us20003fmh. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003fmh. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.22 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 134.527 East, latitude 33.2476 North, depth = 16.22 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/09/15 / 2015-09-02 07:07:47 / September 2, 2015 @ 7:07 am. The temblor was detected at 16:07:47 / 4:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) from Kōchi-shi (c. 335 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Tokushima-shi (c. 267 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Tanabe (c. 69 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Anan (c. 55 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Komatsushimachō (c. 42 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Gobō (c. 27 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Ishii (c. 26 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kōchi-shi, Wakimachi, Tanabe (min 5000 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km E of Muroto, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 134.527° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.2476° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km E of Muroto, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-02 07:07:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-02 07:34:22 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 354 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 0.727 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us20003fmh Id of event.
Event Code 20003fmh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003fmh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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