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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Hasaki in Japan

Posted by admin on February 27, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.8414S, 141.0614WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Hasaki in Japan on Monday. The temblor was detected at 08:26:39 / 8:26 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20008mkp. Unique identifier: us20008mkp. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/02/17 / 2017-02-26 23:26:39 / February 26, 2017 @ 11:26 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.24 km (20 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 141.0614 East, latitude 35.8414 North, depth = 32.24 km.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Narita (c. 100 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Mobara (c. 97 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fujishiro, Ushiku, Naka (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 23 km ENE of Hasaki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.0614° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8414° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km ENE 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 2017-02-26 23:26:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-27 01:48:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 223 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 2.035 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us20008mkp Id of event.
Event Code 20008mkp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008mkp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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