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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 32 km SW of Hirara, Japan

Posted by admin on May 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.5701S, 125.0831WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Hirara in Japan on Friday. 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 24.09 km (15 miles). Exact location of event, depth 24.09 km, 125.0831° East, 24.5701° North. Id of earthquake: us10005gvm. Event ids that are associated: us10005gvm. Global time and date of event 12/05/16 / 2016-05-12 19:04:07 / May 12, 2016 @ 7:04 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 03:04:07 / 3:04 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hirara. Close 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. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km SW of Hirara, 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 125.0831° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.5701° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SW 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 2016-05-12 19:04:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-12 21:54:26 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 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 1.889 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us10005gvm Id of event.
Event Code 10005gvm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005gvm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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