Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Hachinohe in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Hachinohe in Japan on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.3448 East, latitude 40.2784 North, depth = 49.92 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:16:56 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 49.92 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 13/03/21 / 2021-03-13 17:16:56 / March 13, 2021 @ 5:16 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000dj4m. Event ids that are associated: us7000dj4m.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamada, Misawa, Ichinohe (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ichinohe (c. 15 800 pop). Nearby 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 75 km ESE of Hachinohe, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.3448° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.2784° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	49.92 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	75 km ESE of Hachinohe, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-03-13 17:16:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-13 18:07:41	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	369	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	1.101	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	72	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	us7000dj4m	Id of event.
Event Code	7000dj4m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000dj4m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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