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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Yamada in Japan


Earthquake location 39.405S, 141.9818WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Yamada in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 92.77 km (58 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/10/20 / 2020-10-06 06:27:35 / October 6, 2020 @ 6:27 am. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:27:35 / 6:27 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000c5zw. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c5zw. Exact location of event, longitude 141.9818 East, latitude 39.405 North, depth = 92.77 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ichinoseki, Shizukuishi, Mizusawa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km SSE of Yamada, Japan. This data 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 141.9818° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.405° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km SSE of Yamada, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-06 06:27:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-06 06:53:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1.551 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us6000c5zw Id of event.
Event Code 6000c5zw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c5zw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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