Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Honshu in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan kilometers (0 miles) from Honshu in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/07/19 / 2019-07-17 09:00:19 / July 17, 2019 @ 9:00 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us70004m46. Event ids that are associated: us70004m46. Exact location of event, longitude 141.7805 East, latitude 38.9758 North, depth = 71.78 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 71.78 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 09:00:19 / 9:00 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 97 km (60 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 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 Tomiya, Rifu, Shiogama.

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.7805° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.9758° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	71.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	near the east coast of Honshu, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-17 09:00:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-17 09:28:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	1.351	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us70004m46	Id of event.
Event Code	70004m46	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70004m46,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.8 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

141.7805° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

38.9758° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

71.78 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

near the east coast of Honshu, Japan

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

Time

2019-07-17 09:00:19

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-07-17 09:28:38

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

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

354

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

1.351

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

Root Mean Square

0.93 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

134

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

us70004m46

Id of event.

Event Code

70004m46

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

Event IDS

,us70004m46,

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

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