Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Toyoshina in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Toyoshina in Japan on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 09:40:31 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70009lkx. Unique identifier: us70009lkx. Exact location of event, longitude 137.7186 East, latitude 36.1725 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 13/05/20 / 2020-05-13 00:40:31 / May 13, 2020 @ 12:40 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Itoigawa, Kōfu-shi, Iiyama. Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Nagano-shi (c. 360 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Toyama-shi (c. 325 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Matsumoto (c. 210 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kōfu-shi (c. 190 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Takaoka (c. 170 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Ueda (c. 126 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Iida (c. 107 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 21 km SW of Toyoshina, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	137.7186° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1725° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km SW of Toyoshina, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-13 00:40:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-21 02:34:58	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	312	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	0.54	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	99	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	us70009lkx	Id of event.
Event Code	70009lkx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009lkx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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