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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Hasaki in Japan


Earthquake location 35.5477S, 140.8136WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Hasaki in Japan on Monday. Id of earthquake: us70003h89. Event ids that are associated: us70003h89. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/05/19 / 2019-05-06 05:13:14 / May 6, 2019 @ 5:13 am. The temblor was picked up at 14:13:14 / 2:13 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 140.8136° East, 35.5477° North.

Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ichihara (c. 283 500 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Sōka (c. 231 400 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Noda, Katsuta, Sōka.

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km S of Hasaki, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.8136° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5477° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km S 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 2019-05-06 05:13:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-10 14:29:59 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 2.316 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us70003h89 Id of event.
Event Code 70003h89 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003h89, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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