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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Hasaki in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Hasaki in Japan on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.63 km (20 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/18 / 2018-08-11 05:18:36 / August 11, 2018 @ 5:18 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000g6sn. Event ids that are associated: us1000g6sn. Exact location, longitude 141.264° East, latitude 35.2516° North, depth = 31.63 km. The temblor was reported at 14:18:36 / 2:18 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yachimata, Ōami, Mobara (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Mobara (c. 97 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Yachimata (c. 83 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Tōgane (c. 66 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Ōami (c. 53 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Asahi (c. 41 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hasaki (c. 39 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Yōkaichiba (c. 32 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 66 km SE of Hasaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.264° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.2516° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km SE of Hasaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-11 05:18:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-11 07:05:21	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	2.446	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.25 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	us1000g6sn	Id of event.
Event Code	1000g6sn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000g6sn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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