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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Hachinohe in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Hachinohe in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 08:25:19 / 8:25 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006fef. Unique identifier: us70006fef. The epicenter was at a depth of 56.72 km (35 miles). Global time and date of event 02/12/19 / 2019-12-02 23:25:19 / December 2, 2019 @ 11:25 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 141.8212 East, latitude 40.2993 North, depth = 56.72 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shizukuishi, Yamada, Hanawa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Morioka-shi (c. 295 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hachinohe (c. 239 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Miyako (c. 51 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Misawa (c. 42 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Hanawa (c. 36 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yamada (c. 20 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Shizukuishi (c. 19 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km SE of Hachinohe, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.8212° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.2993° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	56.72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km SE of Hachinohe, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-12-02 23:25:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-02 23:46:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	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	340	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	0.756	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 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	us70006fef	Id of event.
Event Code	70006fef	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006fef,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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