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

Posted by admin on February 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.7925S, 143.203WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Shizunai in Japan on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 05:38:08 / 5:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/01/18 / 2018-01-16 20:38:08 / January 16, 2018 @ 8:38 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.15 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.203 East, latitude 41.7925 North, depth = 47.15 km. Event id: us2000cqxz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cqxz.

Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shizunai-furukawachō. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 seven, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fourty-four 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 91 km SE of Shizunai, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.203° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.7925° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km SE of Shizunai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-16 20:38:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-13 20:25:51 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 0.224 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us2000cqxz Id of event.
Event Code 2000cqxz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cqxz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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