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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Ōfunato in Japan


Earthquake location 38.623S, 142.0217WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Ōfunato in Japan on Tuesday. Event id: us7000c82f. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000c82f. The temblor was picked up at 03:44:25 / 3:44 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 61.98 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 27/10/20 / 2020-10-27 03:44:25 / October 27, 2020 @ 3:44 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 142.0217° East, latitude 38.623° North, depth = 61.98 km.

Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ōfunato (c. 35 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yamada, Furukawa, Shiogama (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 five and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 56 km SSE of Ōfunato, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.0217° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.623° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56 km SSE of Ōfunato, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-27 03:44:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-20 06:11:34 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 298 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 2.286 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us7000c82f Id of event.
Event Code 7000c82f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c82f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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