Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Funaishikawa in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Funaishikawa in Japan. The temblor was reported at 18:10:32 / 6:10 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005zz7. Unique identifier: us20005zz7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 49.99 km (31 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/05/16 / 2016-05-28 09:10:32 / May 28, 2016 @ 9:10 am. Exact location of earthquake, 140.568° East, 36.5445° North, depth 49.99 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sugito, Shiroi, Yōkaichiba. Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy-two 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km N of Funaishikawa, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.568° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5445° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	49.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km N of Funaishikawa, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-28 09:10:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-17 08:57:19	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	0.436	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	145	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	us20005zz7	Id of event.
Event Code	20005zz7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005zz7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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