Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Misawa in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Misawa in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004eww. Id of event: us10004eww. The temblor was detected at 00:15:48 / 12:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.39 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 141.1217° East, 40.5311° North, depth 3.39 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/16 / 2016-01-11 15:15:48 / January 11, 2016 @ 3:15 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mutsu, Takanosu, Shimokizukuri. Event epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Goshogawara (c. 49 100 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.1217° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.5311° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km SW of Misawa, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-11 15:15:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-03 21:21:23	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	246	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	0.425	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	140	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	us10004eww	Id of event.
Event Code	10004eww	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004eww,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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