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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Ofunato in Japan

Posted by admin on November 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.8576S, 141.8384WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Ofunato in Japan on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:04:02 / 10:04 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.56 km (31 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.8384 East, latitude 38.8576 North, depth = 50.56 km. Event id: us1000hwmi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hwmi. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/11/18 / 2018-11-26 13:04:02 / November 26, 2018 @ 1:04 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rifu, Shiogama, Miyako (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 26 km SSE of Ofunato, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8384° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8576° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SSE of Ofunato, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-26 13:04:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-26 14:25:55 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 1.286 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us1000hwmi Id of event.
Event Code 1000hwmi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hwmi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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