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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 41 km ENE of Onagawa Chō, Japan

Posted by admin on August 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.5728S, 141.8918WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Onagawa Chō in Japan on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.028 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.8918 East, latitude 38.5728 North, depth = 53.028 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/08/24 / 2024-08-17 00:33:28 / August 17, 2024 @ 12:33 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:33:28 / 12:33 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000n7jh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n7jh.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yamada, Sendai, Sendai-shi. Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 41 km ENE of Onagawa Chō, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8918° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5728° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.028 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41 km ENE of Onagawa Chō, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-17 00:33:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-17 00:49:01 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 354 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 78 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.304 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us7000n7jh Id of event.
Event Code 7000n7jh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n7jh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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