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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Hakodate in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Hakodate in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:04:51 / 7:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.6702 East, latitude 41.699 North, depth = 133.2 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 133.2 km (83 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/09/20 / 2020-09-16 19:04:51 / September 16, 2020 @ 7:04 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000bp37. Event ids that are associated: us7000bp37.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 10 km (6 miles) from Hakodate (c. 275 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Muroran (c. 96 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Mutsu (c. 49 200 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Kamiiso (c. 38 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Date (c. 35 300 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Nanae (c. 30 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Date, Muroran, Mutsu (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 10 km SSW of Hakodate, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.6702° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.699° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	133.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km SSW of Hakodate, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-16 19:04:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-17 18:09:31	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	0.956	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	87	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	us7000bp37	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bp37	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bp37,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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