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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 66 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan


Earthquake location 38.1383S, 141.9789WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 01:54:28 / 1:54 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/02/16 / 2016-02-08 16:54:28 / February 8, 2016 @ 4:54 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 141.9789 East, latitude 38.1383 North, depth = 46.13 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004zim. Id of event: us20004zim. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 46.13 km (29 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Rifu (c. 35 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Yamoto (c. 32 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kogota (c. 19 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Wakuya (c. 18 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kogota, Rifu, Wakuya (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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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 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 ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.9789° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1383° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-08 16:54:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-02 19:35:47 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 2.7 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 298 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 0.977 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us20004zim Id of event.
Event Code 20004zim An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004zim, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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