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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Sakado in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Sakado in Japan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/05/19 / 2019-05-24 03:40:17 / May 24, 2019 @ 3:40 am. Exact location, longitude 139.3324° East, latitude 36.0017° North, depth = 111 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 111 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 12:40:17 / 12:40 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60003rjg. Unique identifier: us60003rjg.

Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yugawara, Yachimata, Motegi (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 7 km NW of Sakado, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.3324° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.0017° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	111 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km NW of Sakado, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-05-24 03:40:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-24 03:59:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	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	326	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	1.061	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 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	us60003rjg	Id of event.
Event Code	60003rjg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60003rjg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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