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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Takahagi in Japan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Takahagi in Japan. Id of earthquake: us6000d2ny. Event ids that are associated: us6000d2ny. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.74 km (36 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 141.0216 East, latitude 36.5911 North, depth = 58.74 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:40:07 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/12/20 / 2020-12-24 19:40:07 / December 24, 2020 @ 7:40 pm UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (33 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tsukuba (c. 175 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Katori-shi (c. 83 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naka, Hasaki, Ami (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 30 km ESE of Takahagi, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	141.0216° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5911° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	58.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 km ESE of Takahagi, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-24 19:40:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-24 20:34:18	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	2.264	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us6000d2ny	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d2ny	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d2ny,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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