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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Ishige in Japan


Earthquake location 36.1295S, 139.9978WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Ishige in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:56:06 / 2:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/01/17 / 2017-01-18 05:56:06 / January 18, 2017 @ 5:56 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us10007u0q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007u0q. Exact location of event, depth 48.91 km, 139.9978° East, 36.1295° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.91 km (30 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Takahagi, Takasaki, Zama.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 3 km ENE of Ishige, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.9978° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1295° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km ENE of Ishige, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-18 05:56:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-18 22:54:11 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 2.2 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 259 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 1.506 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us10007u0q Id of event.
Event Code 10007u0q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007u0q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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