Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Naka in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Naka in Japan on Friday. Exact location, longitude 140.1218° East, latitude 36.0618° North, depth = 46.33 km. Id of earthquake: us2000bl61. Event ids that are associated: us2000bl61. The epicenter was at a depth of 46.33 km (29 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/17 / 2017-11-09 15:37:58 / November 9, 2017 @ 3:37 pm. The temblor was detected at 00:37:58 / 12:37 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chichibu, Tamamura, Ōhara (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 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 four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km WNW of Naka, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.1218° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.0618° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46.33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km WNW of Naka, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-09 15:37:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-09 22:54:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	7	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	1.622	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	151	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	us2000bl61	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bl61	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bl61,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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