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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Toba in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Toba in Japan. The epicenter was at a depth of 342.05 km (213 miles). Exact location, longitude 137.192° East, latitude 34.3495° North, depth = 342.05 km. The temblor was reported at 08:26:23 / 8:26 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003ma7. Id of event: us20003ma7. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/09/15 / 2015-09-20 23:26:23 / September 20, 2015 @ 11:26 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kanie, Kakegawa, Kameyama. Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Hamamatsu (c. 605 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Toyohashi (c. 378 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Toyota (c. 362 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Okazaki (c. 352 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Yokkaichi (c. 295 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Suzuka (c. 191 500 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km ESE of Toba, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	137.192° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.3495° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	342.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km ESE of Toba, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-20 23:26:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-20 23:46:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	298	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	0.881	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	us20003ma7	Id of event.
Event Code	20003ma7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003ma7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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