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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 74 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan

Posted by admin on May 31, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.2791S, 142.13WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005gil. Id of event: us10005gil. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/05/16 / 2016-05-02 20:51:20 / May 2, 2016 @ 8:51 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 25.06 km (16 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:51:20 / 5:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 142.13° East, latitude 38.2791° North, depth = 25.06 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wakuya, Yamoto, Ishinomaki (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Yamoto (c. 32 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Wakuya (c. 18 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 74 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.13° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2791° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-02 20:51:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-31 21:21:40 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 271 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 1.134 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us10005gil Id of event.
Event Code 10005gil An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005gil, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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