Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Ichihara in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Ichihara in Japan on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 81.29 km, 140.0685° East, 35.5611° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 81.29 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/18 / 2018-07-04 23:54:16 / July 4, 2018 @ 11:54 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000g1dv. Event ids that are associated: us2000g1dv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:54:16 / 8:54 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sano, Mito-shi, Kasama (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km NNW of Ichihara, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.0685° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.5611° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	81.29 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km NNW of Ichihara, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-04 23:54:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-25 23:25:32	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	1.779	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	118	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	us2000g1dv	Id of event.
Event Code	2000g1dv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000g1dv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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