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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 67 km SSW of Hirara, Japan

Posted by admin on December 27, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.2067S, 125.152WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Hirara in Japan on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 30.12 km, 125.152° East, 24.2067° North. The temblor was reported at 14:21:37 / 2:21 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.12 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us100049t8. Event ids that are associated: us100049t8. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/12/15 / 2015-12-27 06:21:37 / December 27, 2015 @ 6:21 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hirara. Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 67 km SSW of Hirara, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.152° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.2067° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km SSW of Hirara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-27 06:21:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-27 07:02:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 340 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 1.969 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us100049t8 Id of event.
Event Code 100049t8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100049t8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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