Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Oyama in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Oyama in Japan. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:58:38 / 6:58 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 14.11 km (9 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70007lrw. Unique identifier: us70007lrw. Exact location, longitude 138.1414° East, latitude 34.0063° North, depth = 14.11 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/02/20 / 2020-02-08 21:58:38 / February 8, 2020 @ 9:58 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Hamamatsu (c. 605 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Fujieda (c. 132 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Yaizu (c. 121 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Iwata (c. 88 500 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Hamakita (c. 86 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kakegawa (c. 84 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Shimada (c. 75 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yaizu, Kosai-shi, Fujieda.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 66 km S of Oyama, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	138.1414° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.0063° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km S of Oyama, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-08 21:58:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-22 05:43:20	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	0.67	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71	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	us70007lrw	Id of event.
Event Code	70007lrw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007lrw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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