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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Katsuura in Japan

Posted by admin on September 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.2299S, 141.7624WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 167 km SE of Katsuura, Japan (104 miles) on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.83 km (22 miles). Id of earthquake: us10006jcy. Event ids that are associated: us10006jcy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.7624 East, latitude 34.2299 North, depth = 35.83 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:37:16 / 5:37 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 28/08/16 / 2016-08-28 20:37:16 / August 28, 2016 @ 8:37 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 167 km SE of Katsuura, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7624° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.2299° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 167km SE of Katsuura, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-28 20:37:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-17 21:14:45 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 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 1.968 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us10006jcy Id of event.
Event Code 10006jcy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006jcy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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