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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Ishinomaki in Japan

Posted by admin on December 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.2961S, 141.6021WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007gid. Id of event: us10007gid. The temblor was picked up at 08:17:19 / 8:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53.15 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/12/16 / 2016-12-06 23:17:19 / December 6, 2016 @ 11:17 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 141.6021° East, latitude 38.2961° North, depth = 53.15 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shiroishi, Ōfunato, Marumori (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 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 three, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 29 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.6021° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2961° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-06 23:17:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-07 00:55:30 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 298 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 0.769 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us10007gid Id of event.
Event Code 10007gid An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007gid, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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