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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Shinshiro in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Shinshiro in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/11/18 / 2018-11-15 23:56:46 / November 15, 2018 @ 11:56 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 137.5863 East, latitude 34.9756 North, depth = 278.89 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 278.89 km (173 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hsgp. Id of event: us1000hsgp. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:56:46 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Nagoya-shi (c. 2 191 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hamamatsu (c. 605 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Gifu-shi (c. 397 700 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Toyohashi (c. 378 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Toyota (c. 362 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gifu-shi, Yokkaichi, Toba (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km NE of Shinshiro, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	137.5863° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.9756° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	278.89 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km NE of Shinshiro, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-15 23:56:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-16 00:29:27	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	259	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	0.589	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	102	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	us1000hsgp	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hsgp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hsgp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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