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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Makubetsu in Japan


Earthquake location 44.948S, 142.004WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Makubetsu in Japan on Friday. The temblor was detected at 17:22:49 / 5:22 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007c8l. Id of event: us10007c8l. Exact location of earthquake, 142.004° East, 44.948° North, depth 22.06 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22.06 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 25/11/16 / 2016-11-25 08:22:49 / November 25, 2016 @ 8:22 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nayoro, Wakkanai, Makubetsu (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 57 km (36 miles) from Wakkanai (c. 41 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Nayoro (c. 26 500 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Makubetsu (c. 25 900 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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: 49 km SSE of Makubetsu, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.004° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.948° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km SSE of Makubetsu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-25 08:22:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-25 08:40:40 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 354 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 0.93 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us10007c8l Id of event.
Event Code 10007c8l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007c8l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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