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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Hasaki in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Hasaki in Japan. The epicenter was at a depth of 42.606 km (26 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:55:48 / 12:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 140.7822 East, latitude 35.8064 North, depth = 42.606 km. Global time and date of event 18/05/24 / 2024-05-18 00:55:48 / May 18, 2024 @ 12:55 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mzc0. Id of event: us6000mzc0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mashiko, Motegi, Kasukabe (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Funabashi (c. 560 700 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Matsudo (c. 470 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kashiwa (c. 340 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Koshigaya (c. 317 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ichihara (c. 283 500 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Mito-shi (c. 246 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 9 km NNW of Hasaki, Japan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.7822° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.8064° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42.606 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km NNW 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	2024-05-18 00:55:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-18 01:26:59	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.207	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	131	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	us6000mzc0	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mzc0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mzc0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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