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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Ofunato in Japan

Posted by admin on November 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.5091S, 142.2816WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Ofunato in Japan. Exact location, longitude 142.2816° East, latitude 38.5091° North, depth = 43.47 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/11/17 / 2017-11-06 01:34:32 / November 6, 2017 @ 1:34 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 43.47 km (27 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:34:32 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000bj2l. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bj2l.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yamoto (c. 32 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamoto, Kamaishi, Ishinomaki (min 5000 pop). Close 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. 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 fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 79 km SE of Ofunato, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.2816° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5091° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km SE of Ofunato, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-06 01:34:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-06 02:00:19 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 298 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 1.338 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 155 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 us2000bj2l Id of event.
Event Code 2000bj2l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bj2l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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