Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Kitaibaraki in Japan

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Kitaibaraki in Japan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/09/18 / 2018-09-19 00:01:37 / September 19, 2018 @ 12:01 am. Exact location of earthquake, 141.0013° East, 36.7055° North, depth 45.93 km. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:01:37 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 45.93 km (29 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hgwp. Id of event: us2000hgwp.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 84 km (53 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kashima-shi, Ōtawara, Ishioka (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.0013° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7055° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-19 00:01:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-19 02:01:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	234	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	1.173	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	146	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000hgwp	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hgwp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hgwp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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