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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Ishinomaki in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Ishinomaki in Japan on Tuesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 57.82 km (36 miles). The temblor was detected at 10:21:18 / 10:21 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/06/19 / 2019-06-11 01:21:18 / June 11, 2019 @ 1:21 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70003xxf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003xxf. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.6469 East, latitude 38.4761 North, depth = 57.82 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kakuda, Tōno, Ōkawara. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Sendai (c. 1 063 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sendai-shi (c. 1 063 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Ishinomaki (c. 117 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Furukawa (c. 76 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ichinoseki (c. 63 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Mizusawa (c. 61 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Shiogama (c. 59 500 pop).

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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 30 km ENE of Ishinomaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.6469° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.4761° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.82 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km ENE of Ishinomaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-06-11 01:21:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-11 01:58:47	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	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	0.907	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us70003xxf	Id of event.
Event Code	70003xxf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003xxf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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