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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Hachinohe in Japan


Earthquake location 40.6429S, 142.3952WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Hachinohe in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.15 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:54:32 / 8:54 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/01/17 / 2017-01-21 11:54:32 / January 21, 2017 @ 11:54 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007um8. Id of event: us10007um8. Exact location of event, depth 39.15 km, 142.3952° East, 40.6429° North.

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 Misawa, Hachinohe. Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 77 km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.3952° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.6429° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-21 11:54:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-21 12:25:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 355 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 1.021 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us10007um8 Id of event.
Event Code 10007um8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007um8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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