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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Tahara in Japan


Earthquake location 34.1237S, 137.5206WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Tahara in Japan on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 17:09:26 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 336.75 km, 137.5206° East, 34.1237° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 336.75 km (209 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700038ec. Id of event: us700038ec. Global time and date of event 18/04/19 / 2019-04-18 08:09:26 / April 18, 2019 @ 8:09 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sagara, Ishiki, Mori (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Hamamatsu (c. 605 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Toyohashi (c. 378 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Toyokawa (c. 120 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ise (c. 97 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Iwata (c. 88 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hamakita (c. 86 500 pop).

Each 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 64 km SSE of Tahara, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 137.5206° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.1237° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 336.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km SSE of Tahara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-18 08:09:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-18 08:34:35 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 0.778 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us700038ec Id of event.
Event Code 700038ec An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700038ec, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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