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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Mutsu in Japan


Earthquake location 41.2699S, 141.9429WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Mutsu in Japan on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 54.72 km, 141.9429° East, 41.2699° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/09/19 / 2019-09-15 16:27:10 / September 15, 2019 @ 4:27 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005gpu. Unique identifier: us70005gpu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.72 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:27:10 / 1:27 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hachinohe, Misawa, Mutsu (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 60 km E of Mutsu, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.9429° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.2699° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km 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 2019-09-15 16:27:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-15 16:57:34 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 354 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 0.819 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 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 us70005gpu Id of event.
Event Code 70005gpu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005gpu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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