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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Kitami in Japan


Earthquake location 43.3683S, 143.8007WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Kitami in Japan. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:50:32 / 12:50 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/02/20 / 2020-02-19 15:50:32 / February 19, 2020 @ 3:50 pm. Exact location, longitude 143.8007° East, latitude 43.3683° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us70007t2h. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007t2h. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kamikawa, Abashiri, Obihiro. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Kushiro (c. 183 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Obihiro (c. 173 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Kitami (c. 113 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Abashiri (c. 42 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Otofuke (c. 40 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Bihoro (c. 23 000 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Kamikawa (c. 5 300 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five 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. 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: 48 km S of Kitami, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.8007° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.3683° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km S of Kitami, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-19 15:50:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-19 22:35:30 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 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 1.152 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us70007t2h Id of event.
Event Code 70007t2h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007t2h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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