Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Hasaki in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Hasaki in Japan. 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: us7000ahf7. Unique identifier: us7000ahf7. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/06/20 / 2020-06-28 05:59:40 / June 28, 2020 @ 5:59 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.18 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:59:40 / 5:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.861 East, latitude 35.6151 North, depth = 43.18 km.

The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ichihara (c. 283 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Sōka (c. 231 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sōka, Ishige, Noda (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km S of Hasaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.861° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6151° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	43.18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km S 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	2020-06-28 05:59:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-19 12:52:12	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	326	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	2.338	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	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	us7000ahf7	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ahf7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ahf7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

140.861° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

35.6151° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

43.18 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

13 km S 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

2020-06-28 05:59:40

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-07-19 12:52:12

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

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

326

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

2.338

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.47 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

126

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us7000ahf7

Id of event.

Event Code

7000ahf7

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us7000ahf7,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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