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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 35 km N of Murakami, Japan


Earthquake location 38.5467S, 139.4268WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Murakami in Japan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/08/19 / 2019-08-18 10:06:41 / August 18, 2019 @ 10:06 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 139.4268 East, latitude 38.5467 North, depth = 12.61 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 12.61 km (8 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:06:41 / 7:06 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us600056pa. Ids that are associated to the event: us600056pa.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shirone, Gosen, Yonezawa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Niigata-shi (c. 505 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Yamagata-shi (c. 254 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Sakata (c. 100 400 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Tsuruoka (c. 99 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yonezawa (c. 94 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Shibata (c. 80 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Niitsu-honchō (c. 65 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 35 km N of Murakami, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.4268° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5467° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km N of Murakami, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-18 10:06:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-18 10:24:01 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 1.269 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us600056pa Id of event.
Event Code 600056pa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600056pa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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