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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 55 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan


Earthquake location 38.2704S, 141.9017WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan. Unique identifier: us1000d4f1. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000d4f1. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/03/18 / 2018-03-14 20:40:56 / March 14, 2018 @ 8:40 pm. The temblor was detected at 05:40:56 / 5:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 141.9017° East, 38.2704° North, depth 45.42 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 45.42 km (28 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tomiya (c. 42 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Iwanuma (c. 42 400 pop). 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 Watari, Iwanuma, Ōfunato.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.9017° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2704° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 2018-03-14 20:40:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-15 23:55:13 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 312 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 0.964 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us1000d4f1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d4f1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d4f1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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