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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Aomori-shi in Japan

Posted by admin on November 4, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.6879S, 140.9955WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Aomori-shi in Japan. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bil8. Unique identifier: us2000bil8. The temblor was picked up at 06:05:43 / 6:05 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 108.97 km (68 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/11/17 / 2017-11-04 21:05:43 / November 4, 2017 @ 9:05 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 140.9955 East, latitude 40.6879 North, depth = 108.97 km.

Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Noshiromachi (c. 51 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Goshogawara (c. 49 100 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Noshiromachi, Takanosu, Mutsu (min 5000 pop).

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km SE of Aomori-shi, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.9955° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.6879° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SE of Aomori-shi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-04 21:05:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-04 21:51:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 326 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 0.114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us2000bil8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000bil8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bil8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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