Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

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

Posted by admin on June 25, 2017 0 Comments

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Iida in Japan on Sunday. Exact location, longitude 137.6961° East, latitude 35.6999° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 15:17:15 / 3:17 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20009pl9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009pl9. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/06/17 / 2017-06-25 06:17:15 / June 25, 2017 @ 6:17 am.

Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Nagoya-shi (c. 2 191 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Gifu-shi (c. 397 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Toyota (c. 362 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Okazaki (c. 352 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Kasugai (c. 298 600 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Ichinomiya (c. 280 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Matsumoto (c. 210 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Anjō, Fujinomiya, Mori (min 5000 pop). Close 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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

Did you feel anything?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km NNW of Iida, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	137.6961° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6999° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km NNW of Iida, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-25 06:17:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-25 06:53:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	0.294	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us20009pl9	Id of event.
Event Code	20009pl9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20009pl9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

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

Did you feel anything?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information