Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Kamaishi in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Kamaishi in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 142.7316° East, latitude 39.0068° North, depth = 32.04 km. Id of earthquake: us6000411q. Event ids that are associated: us6000411q. The epicenter was at a depth of 32.04 km (20 miles). Global time and date of event 15/06/19 / 2019-06-15 04:47:46 / June 15, 2019 @ 4:47 am UTC/GMT. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:47:46 / 2:47 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Miyako, Ōfunato, Yamada (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 98 km (61 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 78 km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.7316° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.0068° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	78km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-06-15 04:47:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-15 05:23:16	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	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	1.901	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	125	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	us6000411q	Id of event.
Event Code	6000411q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000411q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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