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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Ishige in Japan


Earthquake location 36.1171S, 139.9319WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Ishige in Japan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44.81 km (28 miles). The temblor was picked up at 16:30:08 / 4:30 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 139.9319 East, latitude 36.1171 North, depth = 44.81 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bj0l. Id of event: us2000bj0l. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/11/17 / 2017-11-05 07:30:08 / November 5, 2017 @ 7:30 am.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tomioka, Shibukawa, Uenohara.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km W of Ishige, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.9319° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1171° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km W of Ishige, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-05 07:30:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-05 22:58:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 30 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 308 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 1.459 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us2000bj0l Id of event.
Event Code 2000bj0l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bj0l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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