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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 25 km WSW of Hachinohe, Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Hachinohe in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/16 / 2016-01-11 06:26:46 / January 11, 2016 @ 6:26 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10004dfn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004dfn. The temblor was detected at 15:26:46 / 3:26 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.14 km (29 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 141.2107° East, 40.432° North, depth 46.14 km.

Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Goshogawara (c. 49 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mutsu, Shizukuishi, Shimokizukuri. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 25 km WSW of Hachinohe, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.2107° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.432° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km WSW of Hachinohe, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-11 06:26:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-11 07:00:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	341	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	2.158	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	97	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	us10004dfn	Id of event.
Event Code	10004dfn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004dfn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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