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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Hasaki in Japan

Posted by admin on February 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.1959S, 141.2299WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Hasaki in Japan. Id of earthquake: us20008iqk. Event ids that are associated: us20008iqk. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 141.2299 East, latitude 35.1959 North, depth = 35.8 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:24:44 / 3:24 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/01/17 / 2017-01-26 18:24:44 / January 26, 2017 @ 6:24 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.8 km (22 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Mobara (c. 97 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Yachimata (c. 83 300 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Tōgane (c. 66 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ōami (c. 53 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Asahi (c. 41 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hasaki (c. 39 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Yōkaichiba (c. 32 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yachimata, Omigawa, Ōami (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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 69 km SSE of Hasaki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.2299° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1959° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km SSE of Hasaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-26 18:24:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-22 18:38:58 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 2.384 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us20008iqk Id of event.
Event Code 20008iqk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008iqk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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