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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Tomakomai in Japan


Earthquake location 42.6825S, 141.7796WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Tomakomai in Japan. Exact location, longitude 141.7796° East, latitude 42.6825° North, depth = 126.15 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/10/19 / 2019-10-17 19:50:59 / October 17, 2019 @ 7:50 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 126.15 km (78 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005v4x. Id of event: us70005v4x. The temblor was reported at 04:50:59 / 4:50 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Utashinai, Sunagawa, Shimo-furano. Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Sapporo (c. 1 883 000 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Tomakomai (c. 174 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Otaru (c. 143 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Ebetsu (c. 134 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Muroran (c. 96 200 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Chitose (c. 92 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Iwamizawa (c. 85 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 15 km ENE of Tomakomai, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7796° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6825° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 126.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km ENE of Tomakomai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-17 19:50:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-17 20:33:18 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 312 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 1.219 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us70005v4x Id of event.
Event Code 70005v4x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005v4x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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