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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Nemuro in Japan

Posted by admin on April 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.7542S, 146.0052WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Nemuro in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/04/19 / 2019-04-17 21:07:59 / April 17, 2019 @ 9:07 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 146.0052° East, 42.7542° North, depth 36.94 km. Event id: us7000384v. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000384v. The temblor was picked up at 07:07:59 / 7:07 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.94 km (23 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nemuro. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 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 two and in the last 365 days nineteen 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 72 km SSE of Nemuro, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.0052° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.7542° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km SSE of Nemuro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-17 21:07:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-17 21:36:45 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 312 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 2.235 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us7000384v Id of event.
Event Code 7000384v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000384v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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