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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Chitose in Japan


Earthquake location 42.7027S, 142.0697WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Chitose in Japan on Friday. Event id: us2000j1sd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j1sd. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/12/18 / 2018-12-20 21:00:59 / December 20, 2018 @ 9:00 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 56.14 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 06:00:59 / 6:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 56.14 km, 142.0697° East, 42.7027° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Sapporo (c. 1 883 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Tomakomai (c. 174 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Ebetsu (c. 134 000 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Chitose (c. 92 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Iwamizawa (c. 85 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Kitahiroshima (c. 62 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Utashinai, Ashibetsu, Sunagawa. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 36 km ESE of Chitose, 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 142.0697° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.7027° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km ESE of Chitose, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-20 21:00:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-11 04:00:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 1.059 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us2000j1sd Id of event.
Event Code 2000j1sd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j1sd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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