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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Kazuno in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Kazuno in Japan. Exact location, longitude 140.9409° East, latitude 40.3891° North, depth = 15.19 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/07/16 / 2016-07-16 13:12:50 / July 16, 2016 @ 1:12 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.19 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 22:12:50 / 10:12 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20006f6m. Event ids that are associated: us20006f6m.

Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Ōdate (c. 64 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Noshiromachi (c. 51 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Goshogawara (c. 49 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tennō, Kakunodatemachi, Noshiromachi. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km NNE of Kazuno, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.9409° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.3891° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km NNE of Kazuno, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-16 13:12:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-16 14:30:36	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	3.8	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	355	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	0.41	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	124	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	us20006f6m	Id of event.
Event Code	20006f6m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006f6m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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