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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 23 km SSW of Ofunato, Japan


Earthquake location 38.8763S, 141.6227WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Ofunato in Japan. Unique identifier: us100030pa. Ids that are associated to the event: us100030pa. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.6227 East, latitude 38.8763 North, depth = 74.05 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:34:46 / 11:34 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/08/15 / 2015-08-10 02:34:46 / August 10, 2015 @ 2:34 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 74.05 km (46 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sendai, Sendai-shi, Miyako (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 23 km SSW of Ofunato, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.6227° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8763° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km SSW 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 2015-08-10 02:34:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-10 02:59:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 340 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 1.2 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us100030pa Id of event.
Event Code 100030pa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100030pa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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