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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Rishiri Town in Japan


Earthquake location 44.7379S, 141.1831WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Rishiri Town in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 271.55 km (169 miles). Exact location of event, depth 271.55 km, 141.1831° East, 44.7379° North. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:25:35 / 7:25 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000hgzp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hgzp. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/10/18 / 2018-10-25 10:25:35 / October 25, 2018 @ 10:25 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Wakkanai (c. 41 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Makubetsu (c. 25 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Makubetsu, Wakkanai (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km S of Rishiri Town, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.1831° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.7379° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 271.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km S of Rishiri Town, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-25 10:25:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-02 10:42:51 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 259 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 1.184 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us1000hgzp Id of event.
Event Code 1000hgzp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hgzp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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