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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake strikes near Nemuro in Japan


Earthquake location 43.012S, 145.3207WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (mg/mb) was reported Monday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Nemuro in Japan. The temblor was reported at 13:58:42 / 1:58 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 41.04 km (26 miles). Global time of event 06/04/15 / 2015-04-06 04:58:42 / April 6, 2015 @ 4:58 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 145.3207 East, latitude 43.012 North, depth 41.04 km, unique identifier, us10001u9h.

Close countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kushiro, Shibetsu, Nemuro.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.3207° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.012° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SSW of Nemuro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-04-06 04:58:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-04-06 05:33:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 312 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 1.884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us10001u9h Id of event.
Event Code 10001u9h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10001u9h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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