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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Chiba-shi in Japan


Earthquake location 35.5661S, 140.1545WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Chiba-shi in Japan on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000dckv. Unique identifier: us2000dckv. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 70.63 km (44 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.1545 East, latitude 35.5661 North, depth = 70.63 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 05/03/18 / 2018-03-05 06:31:30 / March 5, 2018 @ 6:31 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 15:31:30 / 3:31 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tatebayashi, Uenohara, Kumagaya (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 5 km SSE of Chiba-shi, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.1545° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSE of Chiba-shi, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-05 06:31:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-05 22:30:10 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 298 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 1.843 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us2000dckv Id of event.
Event Code 2000dckv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dckv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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