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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Hirara in Japan


Earthquake location 25.2531S, 124.8492WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Hirara in Japan on Monday. The temblor was reported at 00:29:43 / 12:29 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10004tdz. Event ids that are associated: us10004tdz. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/02/16 / 2016-02-28 16:29:43 / February 28, 2016 @ 4:29 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 88.69 km (55 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 124.8492 East, latitude 25.2531 North, depth = 88.69 km.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara (min 5000 pop).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km NW of Hirara, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.8492° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.2531° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km NW 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 2016-02-28 16:29:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-28 17:52:00 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 1.843 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us10004tdz Id of event.
Event Code 10004tdz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004tdz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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