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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Kamaishi in Japan


Earthquake location 38.6179S, 143.8751WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 187 km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan (116 miles). Id of earthquake: us20008sx9. Event ids that are associated: us20008sx9. Exact location of earthquake, 143.8751° East, 38.6179° North, depth 19.57 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:33:29 / 11:33 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/03/17 / 2017-03-18 01:33:29 / March 18, 2017 @ 1:33 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.57 km (12 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 three and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 187 km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.8751° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.6179° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 187km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-18 01:33:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-18 01:54:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 340 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 2.541 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us20008sx9 Id of event.
Event Code 20008sx9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008sx9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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