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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Mutsu in Japan


Earthquake location 41.6145S, 142.0458WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Mutsu in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 111.47 km, 142.0458° East, 41.6145° North. Global time and date of event 07/11/19 / 2019-11-07 02:35:26 / November 7, 2019 @ 2:35 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us600068ii. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600068ii. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 111.47 km (69 miles). The temblor was picked up at 11:35:26 / 11:35 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shizunai-furukawachō, Mutsu.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 78 km ENE of Mutsu, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.0458° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.6145° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 111.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km 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 2019-11-07 02:35:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-03 04:00:31 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 1.107 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us600068ii Id of event.
Event Code 600068ii An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600068ii, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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