Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 32 km ESE of Ohara, Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Ohara in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 01:00:34 / 1:00 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000g42t. Event ids that are associated: us2000g42t. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/18 / 2018-07-08 16:00:34 / July 8, 2018 @ 4:00 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 140.7261° East, 35.1702° North, depth 39.09 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.09 km (24 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Ichihara (c. 283 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Urayasu (c. 143 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kisarazu (c. 122 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Narita (c. 100 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ryūgasaki, Inashiki, Edosaki (min 5000 pop). 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.7261° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.1702° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.09 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km ESE of Ohara, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-08 16:00:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-17 19:03:37	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	2.146	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	140	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	us2000g42t	Id of event.
Event Code	2000g42t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000g42t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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