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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Ohara in Japan


Earthquake location 35.0861S, 140.5933WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Ohara in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Unique identifier: us1000enn2. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000enn2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:09:05 / 5:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 140.5933° East, 35.0861° North. Global time and date of event 11/06/18 / 2018-06-11 20:09:05 / June 11, 2018 @ 8:09 pm UTC/GMT.

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 Kashiwa, Fujishiro, Toride. Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Yokosuka (c. 429 000 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 26 km SE of Ohara, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.5933° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0861° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SE of Ohara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-11 20:09:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-11 20:37:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 12 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 373 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 2.023 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000enn2 Id of event.
Event Code 1000enn2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000enn2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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