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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Shizunai in Japan


Earthquake location 41.9188S, 142.4171WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Shizunai in Japan on Tuesday. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:50:29 / 2:50 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.11 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 142.4171° East, latitude 41.9188° North, depth = 61.11 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/01/16 / 2016-01-11 17:50:29 / January 11, 2016 @ 5:50 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10004dkl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004dkl.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shizunai-furukawachō. Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Shizunai-furukawachō (c. 22 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 46 km S of Shizunai, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.4171° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.9188° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km S of Shizunai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-11 17:50:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-11 20:10:43 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 354 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 0.56 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us10004dkl Id of event.
Event Code 10004dkl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004dkl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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