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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Hirara in Japan

Posted by admin on November 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.9175S, 125.4113WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Hirara in Japan. The temblor was detected at 18:01:45 / 6:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/10/19 / 2019-10-15 10:01:45 / October 15, 2019 @ 10:01 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005xq7. Unique identifier: us70005xq7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 125.4113° East, 24.9175° North, depth 68.34 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 68.34 km (42 miles).

Event epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 18 km NE of Hirara, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.4113° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.9175° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NE of Hirara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-15 10:01:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-10 09:59:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 340 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 2.228 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us70005xq7 Id of event.
Event Code 70005xq7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005xq7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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