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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Takahagi in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Takahagi in Japan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.43 km (32 miles). Exact location of event, depth 51.43 km, 140.9545° East, 36.5705° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:01:32 / 12:01 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000ar86. Event ids that are associated: us7000ar86. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/07/20 / 2020-07-19 12:01:32 / July 19, 2020 @ 12:01 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Utsunomiya-shi, Yaita, Kaminokawa (min 5000 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 26 km SE of Takahagi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.9545° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5705° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51.43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km SE of Takahagi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-19 12:01:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-19 12:31:24	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	2.21	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	178	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	us7000ar86	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ar86	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ar86,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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