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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Tsukuba in Japan

Posted by admin on January 12, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.1514S, 140.0759WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Tsukuba in Japan on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/01/17 / 2017-01-12 00:36:30 / January 12, 2017 @ 12:36 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007sr9. Id of event: us10007sr9. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 79.78 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 140.0759° East, latitude 36.1514° North, depth = 79.78 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:36:30 / 9:36 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zama, Maebashi-shi, Minami-rinkan. Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 87 km (54 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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: 5 km SSW of Tsukuba, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.0759° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1514° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSW of Tsukuba, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-12 00:36:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-12 03:00:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 313 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 1.561 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us10007sr9 Id of event.
Event Code 10007sr9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007sr9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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