Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Hasaki in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Hasaki in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:32:24 / 7:32 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 49.32 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 10:32:24 / January 29, 2020 @ 10:32 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 140.9488 East, latitude 35.6069 North, depth = 49.32 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007kw3. Id of event: us70007kw3.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (46 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ichihara (c. 283 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Katsuta, Mito-shi, Moriya (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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: 17 km SE of Hasaki, 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	140.9488° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6069° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	49.32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km SE of Hasaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-29 10:32:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-28 10:17:00	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	2.379	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us70007kw3	Id of event.
Event Code	70007kw3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007kw3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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