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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Daigo in Japan

Posted by admin on May 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.8726S, 140.4886WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Daigo in Japan. Event id: us1000dxum. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dxum. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:40:53 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/05/18 / 2018-05-04 11:40:53 / May 4, 2018 @ 11:40 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 140.4886° East, 36.8726° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tochigi, Inawashiro, Yūki. Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 17 km NE of Daigo, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.4886° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8726° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NE of Daigo, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-04 11:40:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-04 13:58:49 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 234 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 1.023 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000dxum Id of event.
Event Code 1000dxum An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dxum, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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