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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Hirara in Japan


Earthquake location 24.3401S, 125.2089WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Hirara in Japan on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 11:07:12 / 11:07 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us600089hn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600089hn. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.2089 East, latitude 24.3401 North, depth = 35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/02/20 / 2020-02-26 03:07:12 / February 26, 2020 @ 3:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hirara. The epicenter was 52 km (33 miles) from Hirara (c. 34 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 struck near.

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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 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: 51 km S of Hirara, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.2089° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.3401° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km S of Hirara, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-26 03:07:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-26 04:02:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 2.007 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us600089hn Id of event.
Event Code 600089hn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600089hn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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