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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Hitachi in Japan


Earthquake location 36.5608S, 140.5714WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Hitachi in Japan on Monday. The temblor was detected at 01:02:32 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.58 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70005nif. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005nif. Global time and date of event 29/09/19 / 2019-09-29 16:02:32 / September 29, 2019 @ 4:02 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 59.58 km, 140.5714° East, 36.5608° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Kasukabe (c. 206 900 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hanyū, Kisai, Shiraoka (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km WSW of Hitachi, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.5714° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5608° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km WSW of Hitachi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-29 16:02:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-29 16:42:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 370 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 1.317 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us70005nif Id of event.
Event Code 70005nif An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005nif, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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