Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Sakura in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Sakura in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:25:10 / 11:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 140.2258 East, latitude 35.7411 North, depth = 67.46 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 67.46 km (42 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008knt. Id of event: us20008knt. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/02/17 / 2017-02-18 14:25:10 / February 18, 2017 @ 2:25 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ogawa, Menuma, Hiratsuka. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-seven 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 2 km NNW of Sakura, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.2258° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7411° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	67.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km NNW of Sakura, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-18 14:25:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-21 22:49:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.8	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	300	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	1.822	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	162	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	us20008knt	Id of event.
Event Code	20008knt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008knt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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