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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Hasaki in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Hasaki in Japan. Event id: us20005jrs. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005jrs. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/04/16 / 2016-04-19 10:05:34 / April 19, 2016 @ 10:05 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.4 km (13 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 140.8382° East, 35.6603° North, depth 20.4 km. The temblor was reported at 19:05:34 / 7:05 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Ichihara (c. 283 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Sōka (c. 231 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kasama, Sōka, Iwai (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km S of Hasaki, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.8382° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6603° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km S of Hasaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-19 10:05:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-20 21:06:20	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	2.2	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	312	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	1.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138	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	us20005jrs	Id of event.
Event Code	20005jrs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005jrs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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