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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Ishinomaki in Japan


Earthquake location 38.3619S, 141.907WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan. Exact location of event, longitude 141.907 East, latitude 38.3619 North, depth = 59.84 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/11/17 / 2017-11-10 16:38:20 / November 10, 2017 @ 4:38 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000blgt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000blgt. The temblor was reported at 01:38:20 / 1:38 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 59.84 km (37 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Tomiya (c. 42 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watari, Iwanuma, Sendai (min 5000 pop).

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. 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 sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: 53 km E of Ishinomaki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.907° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3619° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km E 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 2017-11-10 16:38:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-13 22:21:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 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 357 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 1.009 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 130 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 us2000blgt Id of event.
Event Code 2000blgt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000blgt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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