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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Hachinohe in Japan


Earthquake location 40.4145S, 141.8962WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Hachinohe in Japan on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/02/19 / 2019-02-10 00:54:23 / February 10, 2019 @ 12:54 am. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:54:23 / 9:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 60.66 km (38 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 141.8962 East, latitude 40.4145 North, depth = 60.66 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jnh0. Unique identifier: us2000jnh0.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ichinohe (c. 15 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miyako, Ichinohe, Misawa (min 5000 pop).

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 twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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. 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: 34 km ESE of Hachinohe, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.8962° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4145° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km ESE of Hachinohe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-10 00:54:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-02 06:46:05 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 259 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 0.735 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us2000jnh0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jnh0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jnh0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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