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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Tsuruoka in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Tsuruoka in Japan. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/07/19 / 2019-07-11 07:04:26 / July 11, 2019 @ 7:04 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 16:04:26 / 4:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 139.3996° East, 38.5935° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us70004hr5. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004hr5.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yamagata-shi, Niitsu-honchō, Kaminoyama (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Niigata-shi (c. 505 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yamagata-shi (c. 254 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Sakata (c. 100 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Tsuruoka (c. 99 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Shibata (c. 80 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Niitsu-honchō (c. 65 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 39 km WSW of Tsuruoka, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.3996° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.5935° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39km WSW of Tsuruoka, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-11 07:04:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-11 07:26:14	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	298	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	1.312	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us70004hr5	Id of event.
Event Code	70004hr5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70004hr5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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