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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Rishiri Town in Japan

Posted by admin on January 29, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 45.2693S, 141.2489WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Rishiri Town in Japan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007et2. Id of event: us60007et2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 141.2489° East, 45.2693° North, depth 285.35 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:25:33 / 6:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 285.35 km (177 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 09:25:33 / January 12, 2020 @ 9:25 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Wakkanai (c. 41 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Makubetsu (c. 25 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Makubetsu, Wakkanai.

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 one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km NNE of Rishiri Town, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.2489° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.2693° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 285.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NNE of Rishiri Town, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-12 09:25:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-29 10:04:11 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 271 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 1.497 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us60007et2 Id of event.
Event Code 60007et2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007et2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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