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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 73 km SE of Ofunato, Japan

Posted by admin on January 5, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.6385S, 142.3564WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Ofunato in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/01/17 / 2017-01-05 17:39:11 / January 5, 2017 @ 5:39 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 02:39:11 / 2:39 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10007rgy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007rgy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.8 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.3564 East, latitude 38.6385 North, depth = 30.8 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishinomaki, Ōtsuchi, Kamaishi (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 73 km SE of Ofunato, 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 142.3564° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.6385° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km SE of Ofunato, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-05 17:39:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-05 18:57:22 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 1.453 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us10007rgy Id of event.
Event Code 10007rgy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007rgy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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