Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Iwai in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Iwai in Japan on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.26 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 13:01:48 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us200062gb. Ids that are associated to the event: us200062gb. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/06/16 / 2016-06-07 04:01:48 / June 7, 2016 @ 4:01 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 51.26 km, 139.8823° East, 36.0566° North.

Event epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Annaka, Hasaki, Chigasaki.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km WNW of Iwai, 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	139.8823° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.0566° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51.26 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km WNW of Iwai, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-07 04:01:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-03 23:07:16	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	0.304	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	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	us200062gb	Id of event.
Event Code	200062gb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200062gb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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