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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Komae in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Komae in Japan. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/04/16 / 2016-04-14 11:58:19 / April 14, 2016 @ 11:58 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 139.6371 East, latitude 35.5986 North, depth = 46.69 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 46.69 km (29 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:58:19 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005i5r. Id of event: us20005i5r. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ōmamachō-ōmama, Kōfu-shi, Kaminokawa. Earthquake epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Nearby 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 7 km SE of Komae, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.6371° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.5986° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46.69 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km SE of Komae, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-14 11:58:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-14 21:01:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	13	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	330	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	0.774	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	us20005i5r	Id of event.
Event Code	20005i5r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005i5r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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