Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Oyama in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Oyama in Japan. The temblor was reported at 20:47:24 / 8:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 137.9287 East, latitude 34.2485 North, depth = 20.21 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.21 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us600085at. Unique identifier: us600085at. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/02/20 / 2020-02-22 11:47:24 / February 22, 2020 @ 11:47 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shizuoka-shi, Gamagōri, Shinshiro (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Shizuoka-shi (c. 701 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Hamamatsu (c. 605 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Toyohashi (c. 378 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Fujieda (c. 132 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Yaizu (c. 121 100 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Toyokawa (c. 120 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 47 km SW of Oyama, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	137.9287° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.2485° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47km SW 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	2020-02-22 11:47:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-15 09:21:23	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	259	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	0.477	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	137	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	us600085at	Id of event.
Event Code	600085at	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600085at,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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