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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Ofunato in Japan


Earthquake location 38.763S, 142.1583WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Ofunato in Japan on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/08/15 / 2015-08-01 00:23:01 / August 1, 2015 @ 12:23 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.05 km (24 miles). Unique identifier: us10002x0u. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002x0u. Exact location of earthquake, 142.1583° East, 38.763° North, depth 39.05 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:23:01 / 9:23 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wakuya, Ichinoseki, Yamoto. Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Yamoto (c. 32 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Tōno (c. 26 800 pop). Close 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 one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-three 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. Each 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 51 km SE of Ofunato, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.1583° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.763° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km SE 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 2015-08-01 00:23:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-01 00:48:09 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 298 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 1.398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002x0u Id of event.
Event Code 10002x0u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002x0u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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