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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Ishinomaki in Japan


Earthquake location 38.4526S, 141.8211WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/01/18 / 2018-01-30 00:25:58 / January 30, 2018 @ 12:25 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.8211 East, latitude 38.4526 North, depth = 49.7 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:25:58 / 9:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.7 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cr5z. Id of event: us2000cr5z.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iwanuma, Kamaishi, Sendai. Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km E of Ishinomaki, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8211° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4526° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km 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 2018-01-30 00:25:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-30 01:08:43 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 1 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000cr5z Id of event.
Event Code 2000cr5z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cr5z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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