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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Nayoro in Japan

Posted by admin on August 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 44.2285S, 142.5981WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Nayoro in Japan on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/08/18 / 2018-08-12 23:51:11 / August 12, 2018 @ 11:51 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 08:51:11 / 8:51 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 227.45 km (141 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 142.5981° East, 44.2285° North, depth 227.45 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000g7id. Unique identifier: us1000g7id.

Epicenter of the event was 54 km (34 miles) from Asahikawa (c. 356 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Mombetsu (c. 26 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Nayoro (c. 26 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Rumoi (c. 26 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Fukagawa (c. 26 200 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Ashibetsu (c. 19 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Utashinai, Akabira, Ashibetsu (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 17 km SE of Nayoro, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.5981° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.2285° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 227.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SE of Nayoro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-12 23:51:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-13 00:08:22 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 284 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 0.109 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us1000g7id Id of event.
Event Code 1000g7id An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g7id, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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