Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Tateyama in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Tateyama in Japan. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:21:37 / 11:21 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/08/20 / 2020-08-04 11:21:37 / August 4, 2020 @ 11:21 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.2874 East, latitude 34.4361 North, depth = 78.76 km. Unique identifier: us6000b94h. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000b94h. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 78.76 km (49 miles).

Event epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Miura (c. 51 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tateyama (c. 50 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Kawaguchi (c. 29 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Katsuura (c. 22 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Ōhara (c. 20 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miura, Ōhara, Katsuura (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 71 km SSE of Tateyama, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.2874° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.4361° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	78.76 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	71 km SSE of Tateyama, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-04 11:21:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-04 11:46:27	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	369	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	1.375	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	116	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	us6000b94h	Id of event.
Event Code	6000b94h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000b94h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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