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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 248 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan


Earthquake location 37.5542S, 143.915WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 248 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan (154 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 33.59 km (21 miles). Unique identifier: us2000b1yj. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000b1yj. Exact location of event, depth 33.59 km, 143.915° East, 37.5542° North. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:23:47 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/10/17 / 2017-10-06 13:23:47 / October 6, 2017 @ 1:23 pm.

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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 248 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.915° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5542° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 248km 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 2017-10-06 13:23:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-14 07:10:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 340 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 2.498 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us2000b1yj Id of event.
Event Code 2000b1yj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b1yj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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