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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Kitaibaraki in Japan

Posted by admin on April 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7583S, 141.1779WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Kitaibaraki in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.81 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 141.1779 East, latitude 36.7583 North, depth = 37.81 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005dfs. Unique identifier: us20005dfs. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/03/16 / 2016-03-25 14:55:19 / March 25, 2016 @ 2:55 pm. The temblor was reported at 23:55:19 / 11:55 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Funehikimachi-funehiki, Motegi, Karasuyama (min 5000 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 three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km E of Kitaibaraki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.1779° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7583° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km E of Kitaibaraki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-25 14:55:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-08 08:09:39 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 312 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 0.953 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us20005dfs Id of event.
Event Code 20005dfs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005dfs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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