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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Hirara in Japan

Posted by admin on February 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 25.3087S, 124.9248WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Hirara in Japan on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 17:06:35 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.44 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.9248 East, latitude 25.3087 North, depth = 18.44 km. Unique identifier: us2000jisu. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jisu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/02/19 / 2019-02-16 09:06:35 / February 16, 2019 @ 9:06 am.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hirara (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km NNW of Hirara, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.9248° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.3087° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km NNW of Hirara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-16 09:06:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-16 09:27:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 354 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 1.929 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us2000jisu Id of event.
Event Code 2000jisu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jisu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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