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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Kameoka in Japan

Posted by admin on July 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.995S, 135.5454WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Kameoka in Japan on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/18 / 2018-07-08 06:45:40 / July 8, 2018 @ 6:45 am. Exact location of event, longitude 135.5454 East, latitude 34.995 North, depth = 10 km. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:45:40 / 3:45 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000g019. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000g019.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Ōsaka-shi (c. 2 592 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Kobe (c. 1 528 500 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Kyoto (c. 1 459 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Sakai (c. 782 300 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Himeji (c. 481 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Nishinomiya-hama (c. 468 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tsuruga, Iwade, Kameyama. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 3 km W of Kameoka, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 135.5454° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km W of Kameoka, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-08 06:45:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-09 03:22:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 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 223 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 1.266 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000g019 Id of event.
Event Code 2000g019 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g019, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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