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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Ishikawa in Japan

Posted by admin on October 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 26.6599S, 127.5141WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Ishikawa in Japan on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 03:28:28 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007ctq. Id of event: us20007ctq. Exact location of earthquake, 127.5141° East, 26.6599° North, depth 58.5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 58.5 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/10/16 / 2016-10-08 18:28:28 / October 8, 2016 @ 6:28 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Itoman, Tomigusuku, Naha-shi. Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (33 miles) from Naha-shi (c. 300 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Okinawa (c. 125 500 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Ginowan (c. 91 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Gushikawa (c. 65 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Nago (c. 59 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Itoman (c. 57 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Tomigusuku (c. 55 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 40 km NW of Ishikawa, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.5141° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.6599° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km NW of Ishikawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-08 18:28:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-08 20:18:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 344 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 0.7 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us20007ctq Id of event.
Event Code 20007ctq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007ctq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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