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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Funaishikawa in Japan

Posted by admin on January 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4874S, 140.6252WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Funaishikawa in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.38 km (38 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/01/17 / 2017-01-18 08:19:27 / January 18, 2017 @ 8:19 am. Id of earthquake: us10007u0t. Event ids that are associated: us10007u0t. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:19:27 / 5:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.6252 East, latitude 36.4874 North, depth = 60.38 km. 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). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nagareyama, Sugito, Sano. Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km ENE of Funaishikawa, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.6252° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4874° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km ENE of Funaishikawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-18 08:19:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-18 23:29:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 27 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 323 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 1.385 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us10007u0t Id of event.
Event Code 10007u0t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007u0t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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