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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Ishige in Japan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ishige in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:55:35 / 3:55 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 69.347 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000n0yw. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000n0yw. Global time and date of event 25/05/24 / 2024-05-25 15:55:35 / May 25, 2024 @ 3:55 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 140.0514° East, 36.0922° North, depth 69.347 km.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kanekomachi, Hayama, Uenohara (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km ESE of Ishige, Japan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	140.0514° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.0922° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	69.347 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km ESE of Ishige, Japan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-25 15:55:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-25 16:34:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	176	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.559	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000n0yw	Id of event.
Event Code	6000n0yw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000n0yw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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