Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Ohara in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Ohara in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.05 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 38.05 km, 140.6009° East, 35.1704° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/10/18 / 2018-10-21 11:02:52 / October 21, 2018 @ 11:02 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hf8e. Id of event: us1000hf8e. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:02:52 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ushiku, Kamakura, Kashiwa. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Yokosuka (c. 429 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 21 km ESE of Ohara, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.6009° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.1704° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km ESE of Ohara, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-21 11:02:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-26 07:58:01	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	326	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	2.046	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us1000hf8e	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hf8e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hf8e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

140.6009° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

35.1704° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

38.05 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

21km ESE of Ohara, Japan

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2018-10-21 11:02:52

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-10-26 07:58:01

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

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

326

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

2.046

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.96 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

120

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us1000hf8e

Id of event.

Event Code

1000hf8e

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us1000hf8e,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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