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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Iwaki in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Iwaki in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.93 km (25 miles). The temblor was detected at 09:54:37 / 9:54 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000623r. Event ids that are associated: us1000623r. Exact location of earthquake, 141.2883° East, 37.1591° North, depth 40.93 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/07/16 / 2016-07-09 00:54:37 / July 9, 2016 @ 12:54 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kōriyama (c. 340 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Fukushima-shi (c. 294 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Nihommatsu (c. 36 300 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 Yanagawamachi-saiwaichō, Hobaramachi, Fukushima-shi.

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 seven and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km ENE of Iwaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.2883° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.1591° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km ENE of Iwaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-09 00:54:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-09 02:09:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	326	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	0.812	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	127	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	us1000623r	Id of event.
Event Code	1000623r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000623r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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