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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 23 km ENE of Ichinohe, Japan


Earthquake location 40.27S, 141.5607WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Ichinohe in Japan on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 45.22 km (28 miles). Exact location of event, depth 45.22 km, 141.5607° East, 40.27° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/05/20 / 2020-05-13 19:30:33 / May 13, 2020 @ 7:30 pm. The temblor was reported at 04:30:33 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009fjj. Id of event: us70009fjj.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kuroishi (c. 38 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamada, Namioka, Aomori Shi.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km ENE of Ichinohe, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.5607° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.27° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km ENE of Ichinohe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-13 19:30:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-13 20:08:46 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 326 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 0.642 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 89 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 us70009fjj Id of event.
Event Code 70009fjj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009fjj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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