Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Misawa in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Misawa in Japan on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us600055a5. Unique identifier: us600055a5. The temblor was reported at 15:06:09 / 3:06 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 87.59 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.173 East, latitude 40.9347 North, depth = 87.59 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 15/08/19 / 2019-08-15 06:06:09 / August 15, 2019 @ 6:06 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Goshogawara (c. 49 100 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ōdate, Hanawa, Ichinohe.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 32 km NNW of Misawa, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.173° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.9347° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	87.59 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km NNW of Misawa, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-15 06:06:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-15 06:33:56	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	340	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	0.166	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	130	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	us600055a5	Id of event.
Event Code	600055a5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600055a5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

141.173° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

40.9347° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

87.59 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

32km NNW of Misawa, Japan

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

Time

2019-08-15 06:06:09

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-08-15 06:33:56

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

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

340

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

0.166

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

Root Mean Square

0.52 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

130

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

us600055a5

Id of event.

Event Code

600055a5

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

Event IDS

,us600055a5,

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

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