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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Hitachi in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Hitachi in Japan. Exact location, longitude 140.7921° East, latitude 36.4963° North, depth = 48.87 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/07/18 / 2018-07-16 19:42:52 / July 16, 2018 @ 7:42 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 04:42:52 / 4:42 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000g6hu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g6hu. The epicenter was at a depth of 48.87 km (30 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tochigi, Moriya, Kanuma (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Oyama (c. 159 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km SE of Hitachi, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.7921° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4963° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	48.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km SE of Hitachi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-16 19:42:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-16 20:19:36	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	1.37	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	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	us2000g6hu	Id of event.
Event Code	2000g6hu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000g6hu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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