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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Ichihara in Japan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Ichihara in Japan on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us20003iv1. Event ids that are associated: us20003iv1. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.22 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 139.9476° East, 35.4867° North, depth 47.22 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:49:06 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/09/15 / 2015-09-11 20:49:06 / September 11, 2015 @ 8:49 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mashiko, Ōarai, Honjō (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 32 km (20 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km WSW of Ichihara, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.9476° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.4867° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km WSW of Ichihara, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-11 20:49:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-11 21:09:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	14	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	454	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	0.768	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	107	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	us20003iv1	Id of event.
Event Code	20003iv1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003iv1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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