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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Shinjo in Japan

Posted by admin on November 6, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.8707S, 140.4424WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Shinjo in Japan. Global time and date of event 06/11/16 / 2016-11-06 15:18:47 / November 6, 2016 @ 3:18 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 105.91 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.4424 East, latitude 38.8707 North, depth = 105.91 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:18:47 / 12:18 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us100075v5. Ids that are associated to the event: us100075v5.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōkawara, Iwanuma, Nagai (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Yamagata-shi (c. 254 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Sakata (c. 100 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Tsuruoka (c. 99 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 17 km NE of Shinjo, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.4424° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8707° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 105.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NE of Shinjo, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-06 15:18:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-06 16:19:00 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 1.036 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us100075v5 Id of event.
Event Code 100075v5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100075v5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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