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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Funaishikawa in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Funaishikawa in Japan on Thursday. Unique identifier: us7000bp9m. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000bp9m. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.85 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 05:00:37 / 5:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 51.85 km, 140.5254° East, 36.5178° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/20 / 2020-09-17 05:00:37 / September 17, 2020 @ 5:00 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Utsunomiya-shi (c. 449 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Koshigaya (c. 317 400 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kasukabe (c. 206 900 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hanyū, Koshigaya, Shōbu.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-two 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.

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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. 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: 6 km NNW of Funaishikawa, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.5254° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5178° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51.85 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km NNW of Funaishikawa, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-17 05:00:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-17 06:11:04	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	1.865	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	us7000bp9m	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bp9m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bp9m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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