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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Ōtsuchi in Japan


Earthquake location 39.206S, 142.4922WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Ōtsuchi in Japan on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 56.09 km (35 miles). Unique identifier: us6000bai4. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000bai4. Exact location of earthquake, 142.4922° East, 39.206° North, depth 56.09 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/08/20 / 2020-08-02 16:49:00 / August 2, 2020 @ 4:49 pm. The temblor was detected at 16:49:00 / 4:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Tōno (c. 26 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Ōtsuchi (c. 16 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tōno, Ōfunato, Miyako (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km ESE of Ōtsuchi, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.4922° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.206° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 km ESE of Ōtsuchi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-02 16:49:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-09 19:21:20 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 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 1.924 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us6000bai4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000bai4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bai4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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