Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Takayama in Japan

Posted by admin on February 27, 2016 0 Comments

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Takayama in Japan on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 21:24:37 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000504d. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000504d. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 272.76 km (169 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 136.9267 East, latitude 36.1372 North, depth = 272.76 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/02/16 / 2016-02-14 12:24:37 / February 14, 2016 @ 12:24 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kōnan, Nakatsugawa, Toyoshina (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Kanazawa-shi (c. 458 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Gifu-shi (c. 397 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Fukui-shi (c. 248 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kakamigahara (c. 132 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

How would you describe the shaking?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 29 km W of Takayama, Japan.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	136.9267° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1372° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	272.76 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km W of Takayama, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-14 12:24:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-27 07:35:00	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	246	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	0.635	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	us2000504d	Id of event.
Event Code	2000504d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000504d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Takayama in Japan

How would you describe the shaking?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information