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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Tsukuba in Japan

Posted by admin on March 31, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.202S, 140.1338WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Tsukuba in Japan on Thursday. Event id: us20005dks. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005dks. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/03/16 / 2016-03-31 02:48:27 / March 31, 2016 @ 2:48 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:48:27 / 11:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.1338 East, latitude 36.202 North, depth = 55.53 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.53 km (35 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Machida, Fujioka, Hachiōji (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 3 km E of Tsukuba, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.1338° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.202° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km E of Tsukuba, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-31 02:48:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-31 05:24:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 22 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 321 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 0.054 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us20005dks Id of event.
Event Code 20005dks An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005dks, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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