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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Yaita in Japan

Posted by admin on July 29, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.9509S, 139.7259WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Yaita in Japan. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000gge9. Unique identifier: us2000gge9. The temblor was reported at 09:58:48 / 9:58 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/07/18 / 2018-07-29 00:58:48 / July 29, 2018 @ 12:58 am. Exact location of earthquake, 139.7259° East, 36.9509° North, depth 10 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Maebashi-shi (c. 282 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Takasaki (c. 240 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sakai, Nihommatsu, Mito-shi (min 5000 pop).

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 three and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km NW of Yaita, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.7259° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9509° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km NW of Yaita, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-29 00:58:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-29 01:17:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 298 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 1.248 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 136 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 us2000gge9 Id of event.
Event Code 2000gge9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gge9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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