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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan

Posted by admin on April 11, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.1642S, 140.1796WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan kilometers (0 miles) from Honshu in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/04/17 / 2017-04-11 18:10:49 / April 11, 2017 @ 6:10 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 65.17 km, 140.1796° East, 36.1642° North. The temblor was reported at 18:10:49 / 6:10 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 65.17 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008gq6. Unique identifier: us10008gq6.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chichibu, Futtsu, Minami-rinkan (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: near the east coast of Honshu, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.1796° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1642° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place near the east coast of Honshu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-11 18:10:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-11 18:31:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 16 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4 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 361 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 1.639 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us10008gq6 Id of event.
Event Code 10008gq6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008gq6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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