Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Motomiya in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Motomiya in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 102.01 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 03:30:21 / 3:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 140.2411° East, latitude 37.4815° North, depth = 102.01 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jlf3. Unique identifier: us1000jlf3. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/03/19 / 2019-03-25 18:30:21 / March 25, 2019 @ 6:30 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tendō, Suibara, Muramatsu (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Yamagata-shi (c. 254 500 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Yonezawa (c. 94 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Shibata (c. 80 800 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 three and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 14 km WSW of Motomiya, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.2411° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.4815° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	102.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km WSW of Motomiya, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-03-25 18:30:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-25 19:29:55	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	326	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	0.582	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	116	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	us1000jlf3	Id of event.
Event Code	1000jlf3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000jlf3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

140.2411° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

37.4815° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

102.01 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

14km WSW of Motomiya, Japan

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2019-03-25 18:30:21

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-03-25 19:29:55

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

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

326

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.582

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.84 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

116

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us1000jlf3

Id of event.

Event Code

1000jlf3

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us1000jlf3,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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