Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Hasaki in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Hasaki in Japan. Exact location of event, depth 28.63 km, 141.048° East, 35.6535° North. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:31:35 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/11/20 / 2020-11-26 19:31:35 / November 26, 2020 @ 7:31 pm UTC/GMT. 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 28.63 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cl7i. Id of event: us7000cl7i.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Funabashi, Abiko, Hitachi-Naka (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Ichihara (c. 283 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sakura (c. 182 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-one 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 21 km ESE of Hasaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.048° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6535° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km ESE of Hasaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-11-26 19:31:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-03 18:41:31	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	312	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	2.464	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	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	us7000cl7i	Id of event.
Event Code	7000cl7i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000cl7i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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