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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Ofunato in Japan

Posted by admin on July 4, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.8889S, 141.7218WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Ofunato in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.7218 East, latitude 38.8889 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/15 / 2015-07-04 04:23:51 / July 4, 2015 @ 4:23 am. The temblor was picked up at 13:23:51 / 1:23 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10002nd9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002nd9. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sendai-shi, Tomiya, Rifu. Epicenter of the earthquake was 101 km (63 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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: 20 km S of Ofunato, 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 141.7218° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8889° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km S of Ofunato, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-04 04:23:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-04 04:45:50 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.254 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us10002nd9 Id of event.
Event Code 10002nd9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002nd9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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