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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Omama in Japan

Posted by admin on July 9, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.569S, 139.4192WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Omama in Japan on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/16 / 2016-07-08 21:28:54 / July 8, 2016 @ 9:28 pm. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:28:54 / 6:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 139.4192° East, 36.569° North, depth 35 km. Id of earthquake: us10006214. Event ids that are associated: us10006214. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 468 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Tokorozawa (c. 339 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hino, Mitaka-shi, Suzaka. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 19 km NE of Omama, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.4192° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.569° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NE of Omama, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-08 21:28:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-09 00:26:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 340 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 0.708 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us10006214 Id of event.
Event Code 10006214 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006214, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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