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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Hitachi in Japan

Posted by admin on November 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5401S, 141.0175WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Hitachi in Japan on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/11/18 / 2018-11-28 11:14:56 / November 28, 2018 @ 11:14 am. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:14:56 / 8:14 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hxdz. Id of event: us1000hxdz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 43.61 km (27 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 141.0175° East, 36.5401° North, depth 43.61 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kaminokawa, Kuroiso, Asahi. Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Katori-shi (c. 83 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 33 km ESE of Hitachi, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.0175° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5401° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km ESE of Hitachi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-28 11:14:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-28 11:48:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 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 341 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 1.338 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 138 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 us1000hxdz Id of event.
Event Code 1000hxdz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hxdz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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