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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Ishikawa in Japan


Earthquake location 27.0216S, 127.0198WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 103 km NW of Ishikawa, Japan (64 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:43:49 / 2:43 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us200030bg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200030bg. The epicenter was at a depth of 118.94 km (74 miles). Exact location, longitude 127.0198° East, latitude 27.0216° North, depth = 118.94 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 06:43:49 / July 27, 2015 @ 6:43 am.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 103 km NW of Ishikawa, Japan. This information 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 127.0198° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.0216° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km NW of Ishikawa, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-27 06:43:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-27 13:53:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 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 1.133 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us200030bg Id of event.
Event Code 200030bg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200030bg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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