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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Ofunato in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Ofunato in Japan. The epicenter was at a depth of 69.84 km (43 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:12:13 / 2:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/11/15 / 2015-11-13 05:12:13 / November 13, 2015 @ 5:12 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 141.6139° East, latitude 39.0007° North, depth = 69.84 km. Id of earthquake: us10003xzl. Event ids that are associated: us10003xzl.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shizukuishi, Rifu, Tomiya. Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 11 km SW of Ofunato, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.6139° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.0007° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	69.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km SW of Ofunato, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-11-13 05:12:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-13 05:47:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	1.302	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	us10003xzl	Id of event.
Event Code	10003xzl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003xzl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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