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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Kasukabe in Japan

Posted by admin on December 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.0188S, 139.8136WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Kasukabe in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 89.88 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/16 / 2016-11-09 18:55:45 / November 9, 2016 @ 6:55 pm. Event id: us100078s5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100078s5. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:55:45 / 3:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 139.8136° East, 36.0188° North, depth 89.88 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hasaki, Numata, Ōtawara (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km NE of Kasukabe, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.8136° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0188° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NE of Kasukabe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-09 18:55:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-08 16:00:46 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 1.402 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us100078s5 Id of event.
Event Code 100078s5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100078s5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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