Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Ofunato in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 233 km SE of Ofunato, Japan (145 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.9195 East, latitude 37.8706 North, depth = 37.44 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:38:10 / 5:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/07/16 / 2016-07-19 19:38:10 / July 19, 2016 @ 7:38 pm. Id of earthquake: us20006fxb. Event ids that are associated: us20006fxb. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.44 km (23 miles).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 233 km SE of Ofunato, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.9195° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.8706° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37.44 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	233km SE of Ofunato, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-19 19:38:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-19 20:49:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	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	326	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	2.476	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us20006fxb	Id of event.
Event Code	20006fxb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006fxb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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