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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Oarai in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Oarai in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/08/15 / 2015-08-28 14:46:20 / August 28, 2015 @ 2:46 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 140.9198° East, 36.3732° North, depth 34.96 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:46:20 / 11:46 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.96 km (22 miles). Event id: us100035pm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100035pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Oyama (c. 159 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kuroiso, Oyama, Mibu (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 km ENE of Oarai, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.9198° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3732° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km ENE of Oarai, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-28 14:46:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-28 14:58:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.6	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	370	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	0.605	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	129	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	us100035pm	Id of event.
Event Code	100035pm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100035pm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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