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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Ofunato in Japan


Earthquake location 38.8695S, 142.1158WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Ofunato in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/07/19 / 2019-07-10 20:19:15 / July 10, 2019 @ 8:19 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004h8c. Id of event: us70004h8c. The temblor was picked up at 05:19:15 / 5:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 142.1158° East, latitude 38.8695° North, depth = 39.24 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 39.24 km (24 miles).

Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Yamoto (c. 32 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wakuya, Yamoto, Mizusawa.

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 five and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 41 km ESE of Ofunato, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.1158° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8695° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km ESE of Ofunato, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-10 20:19:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-10 20:47:50 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 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 1.443 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us70004h8c Id of event.
Event Code 70004h8c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004h8c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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