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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Kogota in Japan


Earthquake location 38.5548S, 141.0879WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Kogota in Japan. Id of earthquake: us1000gdet. Event ids that are associated: us1000gdet. The temblor was picked up at 03:09:56 / 3:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 105.52 km (66 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 18:09:56 / August 19, 2018 @ 6:09 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 141.0879° East, 38.5548° North, depth 105.52 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yokotemachi, Hobaramachi, Tōno. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 38 km (24 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Yamagata-shi (c. 254 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 3 km E of Kogota, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.0879° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5548° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 105.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km E of Kogota, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-19 18:09:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-19 20:10:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 0 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 0.723 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us1000gdet Id of event.
Event Code 1000gdet An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gdet, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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