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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Chitose in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Chitose in Japan on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000hcj9. Unique identifier: us2000hcj9. The temblor was detected at 19:07:33 / 7:07 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/09/18 / 2018-09-11 10:07:33 / September 11, 2018 @ 10:07 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 142.0744° East, 42.7769° North, depth 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Sapporo (c. 1 883 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Tomakomai (c. 174 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Obihiro (c. 173 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ebetsu (c. 134 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Chitose (c. 92 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Iwamizawa (c. 85 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otofuke, Obihiro, Takikawa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 34 km E of Chitose, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.0744° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.7769° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km E of Chitose, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-11 10:07:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-11 10:32:18	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	1.105	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	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	us2000hcj9	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hcj9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hcj9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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