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


Earthquake location 39.4559S, 141.7945WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Yamada in Japan. The temblor was detected at 14:01:17 / 2:01 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 67.02 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 141.7945° East, 39.4559° North, depth 67.02 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/10/20 / 2020-10-05 14:01:17 / October 5, 2020 @ 2:01 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000c5pr. Event ids that are associated: us6000c5pr.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ichinohe, Ichinoseki, Shizukuishi (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Kitakami (c. 93 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km W of Yamada, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.7945° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.4559° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km W of Yamada, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-05 14:01:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-05 14:35:51 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 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 1.444 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us6000c5pr Id of event.
Event Code 6000c5pr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c5pr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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