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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Rumoi in Japan

Posted by admin on July 31, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 44.1618S, 141.2121WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Rumoi in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 223.02 km (139 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.2121 East, latitude 44.1618 North, depth = 223.02 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20009zj5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009zj5. The temblor was picked up at 09:08:43 / 9:08 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/07/17 / 2017-07-22 00:08:43 / July 22, 2017 @ 12:08 am.

The epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Takikawa (c. 45 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Rumoi (c. 26 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Fukagawa (c. 26 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Takikawa, Fukagawa, Rumoi (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 42 km NW of Rumoi, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.2121° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.1618° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 223.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km NW of Rumoi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-22 00:08:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-31 22:37:27 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 259 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 0.995 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us20009zj5 Id of event.
Event Code 20009zj5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009zj5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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