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

Posted by admin on July 20, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.3214S, 125.2WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Hirara in Japan. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000arg5. Unique identifier: us7000arg5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 125.2° East, 24.3214° North, depth 23.11 km. The temblor was detected at 05:25:06 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 23.11 km (14 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/07/20 / 2020-07-20 05:25:06 / July 20, 2020 @ 5:25 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara. Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km S of Hirara, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.2° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.3214° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 km S 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 2020-07-20 05:25:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-20 05:44:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 2 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000arg5 Id of event.
Event Code 7000arg5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000arg5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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