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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Iwaki in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Iwaki in Japan on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 88.25 km (55 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:03:11 / 11:03 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000crz4. Unique identifier: us7000crz4. Exact location of earthquake, 141.1704° East, 36.8693° North, depth 88.25 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/12/20 / 2020-12-17 23:03:11 / December 17, 2020 @ 11:03 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sukagawa (c. 68 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mito-shi, Miharu, Sukagawa.

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 seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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.

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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 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: 32 km SE of Iwaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.1704° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8693° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	88.25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km SE of Iwaki, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-17 23:03:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-17 23:33:01	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	246	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	2.402	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	166	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	us7000crz4	Id of event.
Event Code	7000crz4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000crz4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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