Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Iwaki in Japan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 112 km ESE of Iwaki, Japan (70 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.87 km (22 miles). The temblor was reported at 06:04:12 / 6:04 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10007mcl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007mcl. Global time and date of event 23/12/16 / 2016-12-23 21:04:12 / December 23, 2016 @ 9:04 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 142.1101° East, 36.8213° North, depth 34.87 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 112 km ESE of Iwaki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.1101° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8213° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	112km ESE 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	2016-12-23 21:04:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-02 23:36:21	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	1.483	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	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	us10007mcl	Id of event.
Event Code	10007mcl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007mcl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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