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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Kushiro in Japan


Earthquake location 42.8998S, 144.6888WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Kushiro in Japan. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:09:58 / 2:09 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20005dbg. Event ids that are associated: us20005dbg. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/03/16 / 2016-03-30 05:09:58 / March 30, 2016 @ 5:09 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 144.6888 East, latitude 42.8998 North, depth = 51.82 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.82 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shibetsu, Nemuro, Kushiro.

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 three and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 26 km ESE of Kushiro, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.6888° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.8998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km ESE of Kushiro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-30 05:09:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-30 06:24:49 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 354 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 1.437 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us20005dbg Id of event.
Event Code 20005dbg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005dbg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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