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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Kitaibaraki in Japan


Earthquake location 36.6235S, 141.0731WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Kitaibaraki in Japan on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.13 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 06:47:17 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 141.0731° East, latitude 36.6235° North, depth = 24.13 km. Global time and date of event 27/08/15 / 2015-08-27 21:47:17 / August 27, 2015 @ 9:47 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us100035jw. Event ids that are associated: us100035jw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sawara, Mooka, Ōtawara (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Katori-shi (c. 83 200 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-nine 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan. This data 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 141.0731° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6235° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-27 21:47:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-27 22:52:12 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 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 0.812 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us100035jw Id of event.
Event Code 100035jw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100035jw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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