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

Posted by admin on January 3, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.9515S, 139.966WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Moriya in Japan. 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: us10007mql. Id of event: us10007mql. The temblor was picked up at 04:52:42 / 4:52 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/12/16 / 2016-12-25 19:52:42 / December 25, 2016 @ 7:52 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.66 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 139.966° East, latitude 35.9515° North, depth = 56.66 km.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 38 km (24 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Daigo, Ninomiya, Kawaguchi (min 5000 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 three and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 3 km WNW of Moriya, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.966° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9515° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WNW of Moriya, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-25 19:52:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-03 00:21:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 331 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 1.542 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us10007mql Id of event.
Event Code 10007mql An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007mql, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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