Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Kamaishi in Japan

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Kamaishi in Japan on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hw8n. Id of event: us1000hw8n. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/11/18 / 2018-11-24 22:46:35 / November 24, 2018 @ 10:46 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:46:35 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.28 km (17 miles). Exact location, longitude 142.53° East, latitude 38.9009° North, depth = 27.28 km.

The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yamada, Ōtsuchi, Ōfunato (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km SE of Kamaishi, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.53° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.9009° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69km SE of Kamaishi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-24 22:46:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-24 23:29:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	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	234	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	1.712	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	154	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	us1000hw8n	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hw8n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hw8n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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