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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Miyako in Japan

Posted by admin on April 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.759S, 141.8324WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Miyako in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 141.8324 East, latitude 39.759 North, depth = 58.66 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 58.66 km (36 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/04/16 / 2016-04-15 18:01:04 / April 15, 2016 @ 6:01 pm. The temblor was picked up at 03:01:04 / 3:01 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005imy. Unique identifier: us20005imy.

Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mizusawa, Hachinohe, Kitakami. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 fourty-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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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km NW of Miyako, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8324° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.759° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NW of Miyako, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-15 18:01:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-15 18:30:20 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 1.356 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 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 us20005imy Id of event.
Event Code 20005imy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005imy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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