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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Honshu in Japan


Earthquake location 38.8592S, 142.054WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan kilometers (0 miles) from Honshu in Japan. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/07/16 / 2016-07-31 16:35:02 / July 31, 2016 @ 4:35 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 142.054° East, latitude 38.8592° North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:35:02 / 4:35 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000690l. Id of event: us1000690l.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kogota, Kitakami, Miyako (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: near the east coast of Honshu, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.054° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8592° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place near the east coast of Honshu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-31 16:35:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-31 17:29:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 298 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 1.401 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us1000690l Id of event.
Event Code 1000690l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000690l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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