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


Earthquake location 35.608S, 140.7982WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Hasaki in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/06/20 / 2020-06-07 00:26:33 / June 7, 2020 @ 12:26 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 00:26:33 / 12:26 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000aaq5. Event ids that are associated: us6000aaq5. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 46.64 km (29 miles). Exact location, longitude 140.7982° East, latitude 35.608° North, depth = 46.64 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Koshigaya, Makabe, Futtsu (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Koshigaya (c. 317 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Ichihara (c. 283 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km SSW of Hasaki, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.7982° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.608° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km SSW 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 2020-06-07 00:26:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-18 23:42:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.496 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us6000aaq5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000aaq5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000aaq5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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