Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Iiyama in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Iiyama in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 138.6341 East, latitude 36.8923 North, depth = 1.91 km. Event id: us10008hk5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008hk5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/04/17 / 2017-04-14 14:01:21 / April 14, 2017 @ 2:01 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.91 km (1 miles). The temblor was reported at 23:01:21 / 11:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Nagano-shi (c. 360 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Maebashi-shi (c. 282 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Takasaki (c. 240 900 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Matsumoto (c. 210 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Jōetsu (c. 204 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Nagaoka (c. 195 300 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Ashikaga (c. 159 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fukayachō, Ashikaga, Imaichi (min 5000 pop). Close 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km ENE of Iiyama, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	138.6341° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8923° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.91 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km ENE of Iiyama, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-14 14:01:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-24 06:37:13	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	0.489	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	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	us10008hk5	Id of event.
Event Code	10008hk5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008hk5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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