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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Hitachi in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Hitachi in Japan on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007c0t. Unique identifier: us60007c0t. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 10:17:55 / January 21, 2020 @ 10:17 am. The temblor was reported at 19:17:55 / 7:17 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50.37 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 140.692° East, 36.5366° North, depth 50.37 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Abiko, Koga, Yōkaichiba (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Oyama (c. 159 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop).

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

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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. 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: 7 km SSE of Hitachi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.692° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5366° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km SSE of Hitachi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-21 10:17:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-21 11:02:36	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	1.968	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	135	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	us60007c0t	Id of event.
Event Code	60007c0t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007c0t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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