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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Ichinohe in Japan


Earthquake location 40.1289S, 141.6107WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Ichinohe in Japan. The temblor was picked up at 19:24:27 / 7:24 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/01/21 / 2021-01-28 19:24:27 / January 28, 2021 @ 7:24 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 141.6107 East, latitude 40.1289 North, depth = 74.98 km. Event id: us6000dcqf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dcqf. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 74.98 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Hanamaki (c. 73 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kamaishi (c. 43 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kamaishi, Hanamaki, Ōdate (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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.

Questions or comments?

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. 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: 29 km ESE of Ichinohe, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.6107° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.1289° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km ESE of Ichinohe, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-28 19:24:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-28 21:14:01 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 326 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 0.78 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us6000dcqf Id of event.
Event Code 6000dcqf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dcqf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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