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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Kushiro in Japan


Earthquake location 42.484S, 145.1684WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Kushiro in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 11:33:46 / 11:33 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/03/19 / 2019-03-03 01:33:46 / March 3, 2019 @ 1:33 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000je68. Event ids that are associated: us1000je68. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 145.1684 East, latitude 42.484 North, depth = 35 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kushiro (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 84 km SE of Kushiro, Japan. This information 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 145.1684° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.484° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km SE of Kushiro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-03 01:33:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-13 03:25:47 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 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 1.565 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us1000je68 Id of event.
Event Code 1000je68 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000je68, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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