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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Miyoshi in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Miyoshi in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 34.52 km, 132.8247° East, 34.8997° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/06/18 / 2018-06-26 08:00:14 / June 26, 2018 @ 8:00 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.52 km (21 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:00:14 / 5:00 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000f1zq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000f1zq.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ōtake, Kurashiki, Masuda. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Hiroshima-shi (c. 1 143 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kurashiki (c. 437 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Fukuyama (c. 383 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Kure (c. 196 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Matsue-shi (c. 156 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Yonago (c. 141 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Onomichi (c. 90 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 six 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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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: 11 km NNW of Miyoshi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	132.8247° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.8997° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.52 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km NNW of Miyoshi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-06-26 08:00:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-26 08:21:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	326	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	1.454	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	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	us1000f1zq	Id of event.
Event Code	1000f1zq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000f1zq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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