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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Sakura in Japan


Earthquake location 35.6863S, 140.2471WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Sakura in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.47 km (38 miles). Exact location, longitude 140.2471° East, latitude 35.6863° North, depth = 60.47 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/03/17 / 2017-03-19 11:35:43 / March 19, 2017 @ 11:35 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008udc. Unique identifier: us20008udc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:35:43 / 8:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tanuma, Ōiso, Itsukaichi. Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 3 km SSE of Sakura, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.2471° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6863° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSE 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 2017-03-19 11:35:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-31 06:58:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 312 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 1.863 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us20008udc Id of event.
Event Code 20008udc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008udc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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