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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Otsuchi in Japan


Earthquake location 39.3626S, 142.0968WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Otsuchi in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.73 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:28:49 / 5:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 142.0968° East, 39.3626° North, depth 51.73 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 08:28:49 / September 25, 2019 @ 8:28 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005l1w. Id of event: us70005l1w.

Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shizukuishi, Ichinoseki, Morioka-shi. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km E of Otsuchi, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.0968° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3626° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km E of Otsuchi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-25 08:28:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-25 08:50:23 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 369 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 1.63 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 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 us70005l1w Id of event.
Event Code 70005l1w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005l1w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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