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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Mutsu in Japan


Earthquake location 41.2382S, 142.439WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 102 km E of Mutsu, Japan (63 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude 142.439° East, latitude 41.2382° North, depth = 43.89 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/09/18 / 2018-09-11 13:25:58 / September 11, 2018 @ 1:25 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 43.89 km (27 miles). Event id: us2000hclq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hclq. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:25:58 / 10:25 pm (local time epicenter).

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 six and in the last 365 days fourty-five 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 102 km E of Mutsu, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.439° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.2382° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km E of Mutsu, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-11 13:25:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-11 13:58:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 355 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 0.944 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000hclq Id of event.
Event Code 2000hclq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hclq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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