Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Hirara in Japan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 110 km NNE of Hirara, Japan (68 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/08/20 / 2020-08-16 02:58:39 / August 16, 2020 @ 2:58 am. Exact location of earthquake, 125.527° East, 25.7811° North, depth 136.02 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:58:39 / 2:58 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000bff8. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000bff8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 136.02 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 110 km NNE of Hirara, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.527° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	25.7811° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	136.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	110 km NNE of Hirara, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-16 02:58:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-16 03:44:47	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	354	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	2.629	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	169	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	us6000bff8	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bff8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bff8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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