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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Mikuni in Japan


Earthquake location 36.9073S, 134.9003WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 135 km NW of Mikuni, Japan (84 miles). Event id: us6000c7h1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c7h1. The temblor was picked up at 04:56:52 / 4:56 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 382.33 km, 134.9003° East, 36.9073° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 382.33 km (238 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/10/20 / 2020-10-11 04:56:52 / October 11, 2020 @ 4:56 am.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 135 km NW of Mikuni, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 134.9003° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9073° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 382.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 135 km NW of Mikuni, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-11 04:56:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-11 05:18:11 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 259 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 2.32 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us6000c7h1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c7h1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c7h1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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