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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Katsuura in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Katsuura in Japan on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.9 km (44 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 70.9 km, 140.317° East, 34.9812° North. The temblor was picked up at 10:48:34 / 10:48 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/09/20 / 2020-09-20 10:48:34 / September 20, 2020 @ 10:48 am. Id of earthquake: us7000bqgi. Event ids that are associated: us7000bqgi.

Epicenter of the event was 97 km (60 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Yokosuka (c. 429 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zama, Atsugi, Omigawa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 18 km S of Katsuura, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.317° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.9812° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	70.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km S of Katsuura, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-20 10:48:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-20 11:06:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	355	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	1.781	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	130	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	us7000bqgi	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bqgi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bqgi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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