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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Mutsu in Japan


Earthquake location 41.4661S, 142.0105WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Mutsu in Japan. Id of earthquake: us2000k7u0. Event ids that are associated: us2000k7u0. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/03/19 / 2019-03-30 23:20:34 / March 30, 2019 @ 11:20 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.09 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 59.09 km, 142.0105° East, 41.4661° North. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:20:34 / 8:20 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mutsu.

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 two and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 69 km ENE of Mutsu, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.0105° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.4661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km ENE 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 2019-03-30 23:20:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-30 23:41:46 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 246 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 0.983 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us2000k7u0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000k7u0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k7u0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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