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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Misawa in Japan


Earthquake location 40.5422S, 141.0325WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Misawa in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 141.0325° East, 40.5422° North, depth 112.53 km. Unique identifier: us10006k1a. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006k1a. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:24:36 / 1:24 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 112.53 km (70 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/09/16 / 2016-09-03 16:24:36 / September 3, 2016 @ 4:24 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shizukuishi, Morioka-shi, Noshiromachi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Noshiromachi (c. 51 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 31 km WSW of Misawa, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.0325° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.5422° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km WSW of Misawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-03 16:24:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-03 21:09:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.248 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 146 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 us10006k1a Id of event.
Event Code 10006k1a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006k1a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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