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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Kamiiso in Japan


Earthquake location 41.4085S, 140.3079WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Kamiiso in Japan. The temblor was picked up at 04:05:59 / 4:05 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/20 / 2020-07-04 04:05:59 / July 4, 2020 @ 4:05 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ahr3. Unique identifier: us7000ahr3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 140.3079° East, latitude 41.4085° North, depth = 124.81 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 124.81 km (78 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hirosaki, Kuroishi, Namioka (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Aomori Shi (c. 298 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hakodate (c. 275 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Hirosaki (c. 175 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Goshogawara (c. 49 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kuroishi (c. 38 600 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 53 km SSW of Kamiiso, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.3079° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.4085° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 124.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 km SSW of Kamiiso, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-04 04:05:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-04 04:21:36 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 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 0.842 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us7000ahr3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ahr3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ahr3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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