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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Ōhara in Japan

Posted by admin on August 13, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.3293S, 140.4681WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Ōhara in Japan. The temblor was picked up at 02:35:33 / 2:35 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000bdsm. Event ids that are associated: us6000bdsm. Global time and date of event 13/08/20 / 2020-08-13 02:35:33 / August 13, 2020 @ 2:35 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.4681 East, latitude 35.3293 North, depth = 50.6 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.6 km (31 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shiki, Kasukabe, Saitama. Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km NE of Ōhara, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.4681° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3293° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km NE of Ōhara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-13 02:35:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-13 03:07:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 1.985 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us6000bdsm Id of event.
Event Code 6000bdsm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bdsm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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