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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 9 km ENE of Funaishikawa, Japan

Posted by admin on September 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5007S, 140.6637WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Funaishikawa in Japan. Event id: us2000hj04. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hj04. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54.04 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.6637 East, latitude 36.5007 North, depth = 54.04 km. The temblor was detected at 00:05:34 / 12:05 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/09/18 / 2018-09-23 15:05:34 / September 23, 2018 @ 3:05 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tanuma, Nikkō, Satte. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days seventy-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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 9 km ENE of Funaishikawa, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.6637° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km ENE of Funaishikawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-23 15:05:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-23 16:40:10 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 3.3 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 327 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 1.369 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 137 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 us2000hj04 Id of event.
Event Code 2000hj04 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hj04, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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