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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Mutsu in Japan


Earthquake location 41.3853S, 142.0079WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Mutsu in Japan. Exact location, longitude 142.0079° East, latitude 41.3853° North, depth = 55.02 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.02 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:42:42 / 6:42 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 21:42:42 / September 17, 2015 @ 9:42 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003kyb. Id of event: us20003kyb.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Misawa, Mutsu (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-four 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 67 km E of Mutsu, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.0079° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.3853° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km E of Mutsu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-17 21:42:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-17 22:11:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1.169 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us20003kyb Id of event.
Event Code 20003kyb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003kyb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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