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

Posted by admin on November 3, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.072S, 145.6825WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Nemuro in Japan on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, 145.6825° East, 43.072° North, depth 70.73 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:04:11 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000auhy. Unique identifier: us1000auhy. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 70.73 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/10/17 / 2017-10-12 06:04:11 / October 12, 2017 @ 6:04 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shibetsu, Nemuro (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 km SSE of Nemuro, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.6825° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.072° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SSE of Nemuro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-12 06:04:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-03 08:43:46 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 2.144 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us1000auhy Id of event.
Event Code 1000auhy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000auhy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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