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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Ofunato in Japan


Earthquake location 38.6922S, 142.3056WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Ofunato in Japan. Exact location, longitude 142.3056° East, latitude 38.6922° North, depth = 30.05 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/12/15 / 2015-12-01 22:48:06 / December 1, 2015 @ 10:48 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 30.05 km (19 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:48:06 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us100042kn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100042kn.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamoto, Tōno, Ishinomaki (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Yamoto (c. 32 000 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Tōno (c. 26 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-six 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 66 km SE of Ofunato, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.3056° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.6922° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km 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 2015-12-01 22:48:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-01 23:18:23 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 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 1.448 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us100042kn Id of event.
Event Code 100042kn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100042kn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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