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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Otsuki in Japan

Posted by admin on May 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.5261S, 138.9843WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Otsuki in Japan on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/05/18 / 2018-05-15 05:00:42 / May 15, 2018 @ 5:00 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 138.9843 East, latitude 35.5261 North, depth = 58.33 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 58.33 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:00:42 / 2:00 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000e57m. Event ids that are associated: us1000e57m.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maebashi-shi, Kashiwa, Shimoda (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 9 km SSE of Otsuki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.9843° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5261° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSE of Otsuki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-15 05:00:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-15 05:18:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 15 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 316 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 1.071 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us1000e57m Id of event.
Event Code 1000e57m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e57m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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