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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Funaishikawa in Japan


Earthquake location 36.4343S, 140.7484WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Funaishikawa in Japan on Sunday. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:20:26 / 8:20 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000407f. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000407f. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.43 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/11/15 / 2015-11-21 23:20:26 / November 21, 2015 @ 11:20 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 140.7484° East, latitude 36.4343° North, depth = 43.43 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sugito, Yoshikawa, Yotsukaidō.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km ESE of Funaishikawa, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.7484° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4343° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ESE of Funaishikawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-21 23:20:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-21 23:44:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 12 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 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 375 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 0.494 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us1000407f Id of event.
Event Code 1000407f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000407f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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