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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Shizunai in Japan


Earthquake location 42.0081S, 142.7205WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Shizunai in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10007utr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007utr. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/01/17 / 2017-01-22 12:13:43 / January 22, 2017 @ 12:13 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.41 km (44 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 142.7205° East, 42.0081° North, depth 70.41 km. The temblor was detected at 21:13:43 / 9:13 pm (local time epicenter).

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

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 46 km SE of Shizunai, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.7205° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.0081° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SE 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 2017-01-22 12:13:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-10 09:34:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.325 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us10007utr Id of event.
Event Code 10007utr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007utr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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