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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Tomakomai in Japan

Posted by admin on September 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.6679S, 141.9576WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Tomakomai in Japan. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:54:22 / 6:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 141.9576 East, latitude 42.6679 North, depth = 29.96 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/09/18 / 2018-09-13 21:54:22 / September 13, 2018 @ 9:54 pm. Unique identifier: us2000he9l. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000he9l. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.96 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ashibetsu, Utashinai, Date (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Sapporo (c. 1 883 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Tomakomai (c. 174 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ebetsu (c. 134 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Muroran (c. 96 200 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Chitose (c. 92 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Iwamizawa (c. 85 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Kitahiroshima (c. 62 400 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km E of Tomakomai, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.9576° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6679° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km E of Tomakomai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-13 21:54:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-13 22:38:40 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 2.7 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 312 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 1.103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000he9l Id of event.
Event Code 2000he9l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000he9l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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