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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Mutsu in Japan

Posted by admin on July 23, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.4768S, 141.9922WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Mutsu in Japan on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/07/19 / 2019-07-22 05:40:49 / July 22, 2019 @ 5:40 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70004qgy. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004qgy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 63.53 km (39 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 141.9922 East, latitude 41.4768 North, depth = 63.53 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:40:49 / 2:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mutsu. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 68 km ENE of Mutsu, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.9922° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.4768° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km ENE of Mutsu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-22 05:40:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-23 05:37:46 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 0.981 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us70004qgy Id of event.
Event Code 70004qgy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004qgy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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